JRT; You are correct, Michael Kitchener appears in HoC as the PoW.
Good luck with the "Y" patch, I'm crossing fingers and toes that all goes well.
Dux; if you catch Buddye1 in the mess he'll probably know what to do to get you past that cloudy screen. You can save the output from dxdiag just by clicking the save information button on the dxdiag main screen and it saves it a text file.