My TV/Monitor (excuse me if this sounds braggy) is a 32" (inch,) widexcreen, flat hdtv which is good and fills my mind with yayness. However, the largest screen area that works properly on it is 800x600 and therefore decreases my yayness by a woot and dropping it to a hoorah? (equation: yayness-woot=hoorah?)
Have you ever experienced or owned something that seemed "bittersweet?"

Yes.

My 30gb ZVM.

I got it on craigslist for 60 bucks. The original owner said that it was in good condition, placed into a protective case since the day he got it, and never dropped, but kept it freezing.. so he got a new one and was offering it to anyone for 60 bucks.. I figured what the hell, and bought it anyway.. I mean if I could get it to work, that would mean that I go a 300 player for 60 bucks.

It froze a few times, and miraculously, it started working again. And has been for a few days.. I added about 90% of my music collection to it, (the other 10% is on a dvd somewhere..) and I am a little hesitant to add video to it because it may freeze.. but it has been working perfectly for almost a week now..

Mr. Nest and I don't even mention the word "freeze" on the account that it might do so..

I bought a 320 GB comstar external harddrive with RJ-45E network connection and I got it home, installed the software and hooked it to my router, Walked not more than 10 feet, to my laptop tried to connect it to access the external hdd wirelessly and... it doesn't work. (It ends up crashing windows explorer everytime I try it.) Apparently the wireless connection is too slow or lossy or just not powerful enough for the volume of even an idle level of activity of a hard drive.

So I can't use the network feature like I wanted, but not all is bad, because I can still connect it with a usb cable... (unfortunately if I'd have known about this I would have just got a 1 TB external instead...)