Computers... GRRRRRR!!!!

Ok,I named this blog "Perceptions of the Princess, but today I think its more like "Complaints of the Princess." I know my mother is already rolling her eyes thinking "Why am I not surprised?" But really folks... who has not had a complaint about their computer? Ok, well, maybe not computers in general per say... well... yes, probably computers in general are frustrating, but lately my beef has been with my chosen music/media program. As it is a very popular and highly utilized program, one would assume that it would be a well-oiled machine when it comes to doing simple things such as downloading songs, podcasts, burning cds and the like. But nooooo...
In the last 2 weeks I have had more issues with my music program than I have had with any part of my computer. First off, everytime I logged onto the program it said it wanted to download the new updated version. I used to always click on NO, but once a long while back, my computer did indeed crash and if I would have updated to the newer version of the program, I wouldn't have lost all my music. So, now I tend to update things a little more frequently. However, the last time it wanted to update the version, it uninstalled my origial program before attempting to install the new one and you guessed it... it took all my music with it. I spend well over an hour on tech support with a very nice guy who at least acted like he understood and was sympathetic with my loss (of my music etc.) After this nice fella, I think his name was Brian, finally helped me get the new download installed and my music back, I thought I was back in love well at least back in like with my music/media program. That was up until I tried to burn a cd. All of a sudden it said that I didn't have the necessary tools to burn cds. Since I have burned several cds in the past, I knew that the right tools had been there at one time. Grrrrrr! I sat for 2 hours googling the error message and finally came upon a discussion thread in a forum talking about this very same problem. There were so many people with so many possible solutions. I just started praying that I wouldn't download a virus to my computer and then just started clicking.... Amazingly enough, the third thing I tried worked. At least for the time being.
I said all that to say that I have been mad at my computer for the last few days and just decided to visit it again. Fortunately for me she still likes me and let me on to blog (or vent) for a few minutes this evening. If she continues to be nice then I will be back again soon! :-)