I am going to try and get an HTPC for my new house. I've never worked with any of this stuff before. I built a touchscreen juke using xlobby but that's about as far as my knowledge goes. I've tried downloading mediaportal on my regular computer p4 1gig ram amd it gets stuck on loading plugins after the inital setup. What am I missing I tried downloading some of the essintials like the dual core precessor bit and i ended up with a blue screen of death and it took me 3 hours to correct the damage.