Oh the pain of it all

I'm still no closer to getting this worked out. I tried reinstalling Mandrake, to see if having the wireless card there for the entire process would make it work. It didn't.

I then spent a good deal of the day trying to get it to work, and eventually gave up on it and decided to try Windows again. I found a way to restore the Windows master boot record, so after doing that it *still* told me I had another operating system in my main partition (even though I can't, because I removed it from the MBR and deleted the partitions). If Windows doesn't take this time, I'm going to have to do some tricky partitioning, or get very very angry.

I like both options.