So much for my new computer. I was using it 4:15 yesterday and it was working fine. When I went back at 5, it had turned itself off and I couldn't get it to turn back on.
The consensus of geeks available to me by e-mail is that there's something wrong with the power supply, and I was probably operating on battery at 4:15 and didn't realize it; by 5, the battery was used up.
Fortunately, it's still in warranty, so I can take it back to the store and have it worked on (or replaced) for free. Unfortunately, I hadn't backed up in the last couple weeks, so lost access to a couple projects in process. Because the new one doesn't have a floppy drive, I can't use my old method of having WordPerfect save to floppy every 5 minutes. Hadn't yet figured out whether I can have it auto-save to the CD drive every 5 minutes.