I think not - since I posted this, the laptop in question has stopped booting. One long beep, two or three short - when I looked up the POST Beep codes for Thinkpads, it said 'bad video card'. I've given up on resurrecting it - I pulled the hard-drive, got the data off it using a USB enclosure, and am now trying to get a Toshiba running Mandriva to work for iraunink. It's mostly working - the two current frustrations are getting the touch-pad to work (which she doesn't care about as much - she'll use the external mouse, if it had a trackpoint that wasn't working she'd be upset), and getting Mandriva to connect to a hidden, password-protected Samba share on a Debian box.