Junkbj, It appears that you are getting a turnkey price from a builder. Most builders will quote a project based on a certain number of $ per sq ft based on their experience and the current material pricing. They simply don't do a detailed take-off of the house because they don't have time to do it. If you think about it, a lot of people "toy" around with the idea of building a house and start making phone calls to builders to get prices. If the builder was giving detailed quotes to everyone that called, he would not be making any money. He knows what his cost is and he knows what he can build the house for and make a profit...so to save time, most builders will just give you a cost per sq ft or a lump sum like you got. Here's what I would do... Call the builder that you would like to have build your house. Talk to him and tell him that you want to use him but his price is a little out of your budget. Ask him if he can give you some suggestions as to how you can reduce the price so you are within your budget. You need to make a decision as to what you are willing to give up, what is important to you and what is not. What my wife and I did was to decide what would be easy to upgrade later and what would not. We also decided to go with a little less expensive can light fixtures since they will not be seen anyway. These are just a few examples of what we did. I am building a house right now. We are getting ready to do sheetrock starting next Thursday. I am a contractor but I do industrial construction at manufacturing companies so this is a new experience for me as well. It sounds like you are fairly knowledgeable...why are not considering being the general contractor yourself and saving the mark up? Its all a matter of getting some subcontractors and then managing them. If you'd like I can give you some tips on finding subs if you want to go this direction. Hope my thoughts helped you. Let me know if you have any other questions. Bret

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Its usually pretty simple,, just close your browser and any instant messaging programs and go to add/remove programs in control panel and double click ie8. You might want to read the microsoft support article for XP. Here is a link that might be useful: Microsoft Support - Uninstall IE8

If you see them in add/remove, you have them installed. IE wasnt working ... is it now ? If not - I certainly would download xpsp2 266mb worth and -x (extract) it to a new folder then maybe burn it to a CD ot put its i386 folder on my c drive. It contains the i386 folder & contents thats needed to run SFC, and many other things now or down the road. If I recall correctly yours wants to repopulate the dll cache so that most likely means something is needed from i386.