Well, after days of cursing and shouting, my wife (BethK) has finally exorcised the anti-atheist demon in the latest version of Ubuntu that downed her computer. (A friend postulates she was slipped Ubuntu CE, the version of Ubuntu optimised for Christian Computing).
She went back and installed the Hardy Heron version of it, wiping out the op system and replacing it with the older version. So she is back here again.
James
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."