.. Still getting blocks, at 128000.. and still going. Don't worry I'll stay true to my word, once I get all my coins.

Cool, well I got your address penned. So expect a 1er in there at some point tonight (GMT)..

Guy's thanks a lot for your attention and help.

I did everything you said r.e. deleting the stuff in the folder. I then started Bitcon sucessfully. I quit it, moved the wallet back into the folder, started Bitcoin and it's just gathering all the connections and blocks.

5 Mins, I'll just see that I get all my coins back in then I'll forward you the coin..

I've followed the steps that jh1523 laid out, un-installed, re-installed Bitcoin but now it's saying:

'Error loading blkindex.dat'

F U C K.

P.S. jh1523 I know your the man, you have this coin just after it's all saved and I've stopped sweating. Sorry for making you work so hard for it..!

Thanks mate, your very close to your Bitcoin..!

I'm up to the part where I have to un-install then re-install Bitcoin. (I have to as the restart isn't working)

You said to save the wallet.dat  somewhere safe, can that be my desktop or does it have to be external?

Thanks for your response jh1523

Please could you spell this out to me. I'm an absolute n00b when it comes to this. I'm running on Vista. No idea how to do anything you said. Step-by-step would be great..

Please, Bitcoin is ready to go over to you..

Regards.

(Bare in mind, I can't even access Bitcoin)

Hi,

I opened up Bitcoin just as I usually have for the past few months and suddenly I get this message:

EXCEPTION: NSt8ios_base7failureE
ReadCompactSize() : size too large
C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin.exe in AppInit()

Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Is there anyway of getting to my Bitcoin?

I'd really appreciate a response as I have quite a bit in there.

Anyone who can, leave your Bitcoin address and I'll flip them a Bitcoin if it works..

Regards.