Well after a 9 day fight with the Rootkit TDL3 (Tidserv), I have just imaged my hard drive (per everyone's recommendation) and am running off the image drive, to prove its reliability and everything works correctly, and it does, all but Norton AV.
FIX NOW comes up, with:
X SONAR Protection
X Intrusion Protection
Then it asked me to retrieve my serial No., and uninstall and reinstall Norton.
What's my chance that somebody is going to say Norton knows this is not the hard drive the software was originally installed on, and I will either have to reinstall it every time I swap drives, OR, use this drive as backup only, and beat the other one to death....right?
....I hope not.