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So.  Today about made me blow up.

When I got into work, I was surprised to see my coworker there, which was good, because he's the one that I'm brain-picking when it comes to building an image.  Being nearly done, all I had to do was change the HALs on the two images (desktop and laptop) so that they would work on all the destination computers.  He told me to just use the 'standard one'.  Well, the Standard HAL that windows ships with is very, very basic, and after I switched to it, both imaging machines refused to boot properly.  Neat.  I about shot my coworker in the face.  Not even last known good config worked on them.  So all that time I spent on friday and over the weekend was basically for naught, and I had to start from where I had taken a presysprep image on Friday morning and still get both projects finished today, not exactly leaving me time to finish the third.  I got the desktop finished, the laptop mostly finished, and the third project defragged and prepped for sysprep when my supervisor broke the imaging server.  I took this as a sign to go home.

Only to find that my fooling around with <code>hdiutil</code> to fix my laptop had mostly just made it refuse to mount properly.  This means that the laptop booted fine, but it would basically fail to mount my home directory (actually an encrypted sparse image) without telling me so, leaving me with no error message or anything.  I've just now finally got it mounted in single user mode and I'm currently backing all my data up, just in case it still refuses to mount properly.

Fucking computers.  They may have solved a few problems, but they certainly made a whole lot more.

EDIT: Finally mounted properly. Yeesh.