actually, i just tried again. i think i screwed up last time when i was resetting it 3 times. i thought i had the command key down, but i also had the space bar down too. so then i rebooted it and did what you said and it didn’t work. i tried again from square one, and now it’s working. i went into the dashboard and disabled the widgets. seems to be working ok. i’m posting from it now, so here’s hoping.
sureshot, thanks so much for your help.