Total Computer Meltdown

Well, actually not total. Here's the story. The Windows (a relatively new machine) was running fine Wednesday morning, but then Wednesday night, it started misbehaving. It stopped connecting to the Internet, to be exact. The computer was running fine (and still is), but it won't do anything besides let you use its files. In other words, I cant do anything with it besides play solitaire and sync my iPod. I am posting on the frankencomputer (my little nickname for my Mac/Linux hybrid), however I am limited in what I can do because, sadly, although I upgraded distros fairly recently, Adobe still doesn't support my weird combination of old architecture and an alternate OS, so I cannot use Fantastic Contraption, Aviary (a really awesome image editing/creating site), or any other Flash application. That being said, we are probably soon going to get another computer, and if we do, it'll be a Mac, something that will run and not crash/die/make you reboot every time you do anything useful/be an *** about everything/be evil/be Microsoft/make you enter your password everywhere.