What caused the 6 minute bootup time was the external harddrive where my two backups were. I had one for the Dimension 3000 and one for the Dimension 8100(my 'spare', and the one I'm currently using for Internet browsing.
I'm getting another error message when I click on My Documents folder. It says: "Windows Live ID Internet Connection Error", "Your request cannot be completed because the Windows Live ID service could not be found or did not respond. The service might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your network settings".
I did notice before hitting the sack last night that chkdsk was listing a 'whole bunch' of ("Invalid Security ID" replacing with default Security ID").
Edit: The 6 minutes was mentioned in the "How run chkdsk" thread. It seemed better to me to start a different thread, since it's a different problem. (maybe I should have just posted this in the other thread?
On the Windows disk. It's an upgrade disk first of all, and it also is SP2, not SP3, (which I now have); plus I can't find it yet. I do have a Vista Home Basic disk, which I bought, but never installed.