Bad news first: Mom's back in the hospital again. Somehow something got pulled or whatnot and caused a ton of back pain beyond that related to the surgery. After a few days she got a hold of the surgeon and he had her go back in. Hopefully they'll find out what's going on. Pain Management was no help at all. She's being scanned and probed now to find out what's going on, and will be there at least overnight.
The good news: Some planned upgrades were delivered today. I'm now running a AMD X2 Brisbane 5000+, with 4 megs of RAM. Dad will get my old chip on a new motherboard, go 2 gigs of RAM, and he'll have to get a new graphics card.