Okay that seemed to work..system is backing up as I type. Will not be totally convinced until I need to recover from some sort of catastrophe, but in the mean time I do feel a bit more confident.
To bad this trick does not work for my video card, then maybe I can once again have a fully functional OS with all the bells in whistles. Still no answer for my QE/CI support, but that is for another day.

Thanks so much to both of you for your help and support. Glad I found this site!

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OS : Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
CPU : AMD Athlon II X4 645, 3.11 GHz
RAM : 4GB Crucial PC3/16000 DDR3
GPU : nVidia Geforce 210 1 Gig Full Hardware Acceleration
Sound : Onboard Audio Realtek ALC887
LAN: Sonnet Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Controller
Monitor : Acer S231HL 24" Wide Screen 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Htz
USB: Keyboard/Microsoft Confort Curve 2000 - Mouse/Logitech M185
Bluetooth: Apple Magic Tracpad/ DLink DBT 122 Bluetooth Dongle