Hi Mike :-)
Jan,

You have no restore points because something you are doing,
unintentionally of course, is resetting system restore (each time you
boot your system). What do you have in the way of removable disks or
are you multi-booting in some way?

No, I'm not multi-booting, and I don't leave disks or CD in the machine. It
was doing perfect there for some time, I had at least a month or more RP's
at a time. But, something is causing them to be lost again. My machine is
clean, I've checked it for everything, with everything, I can think of, and
there is nothing there, 'cept HAL maybe, and he's not talking ...for the
moment.

As for your mouse and keyboard problems are, this could be hardware
failure of some sort or allied in some way to why system restore is
also resetting itself.

This problem is weird. Really! I thought it might be the USB's losing power,
and that may be, but, it does not always happen. It is intermittent, and if
they both quit at the same time all the time, which has only happened twice,
I could see more clearly that possibility. Something seems to be going on
and I can't find it myself. I have run a speed and tweak test and they are
fine. I have updated the drivers for the mouse, and thus far is has only
died once. I've not had this happen before.

Heh.....how.novel....me.....with a 'new' problem. :-))))

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.

Jan