Update:
So I got my boyfriend to work on it, and after a few hours of aggravation and a hunt through my bedroom for my Windows 7 disk, it seems to be working well enough. Not even overheating like it used to. The only problem is, this saving of my computer came at the cost of wiping everything, so don't expect any art or whatnot until I manage to get all of my programs re-downloaded and my drivers all squared away.
I think I'm most sad that I lost all of my music. 9 gigs down the drain. ;~;
Over the last couple of weeks, my laptop has slowly but surely been dying. It's forgetting preferences, losing the ability to open certain files,