Looks as if I won't be able to do art anymore.
Last weekend, I caught a virus that ultimately led to me doing a system restore from the partition in order to get rid of it. Doing this resulted in loss of program data, registry entries associated with such, etc.
Naturally, my copy of Photoshop 8 became unregistered and ceased to work. I no longer have the product key so there's nothing I can do. And I'm certainly not paying 700-1000 dollars for CS4.
And my scanner has been long unfunctional.
So, no more art from me for a long time!