WHEW, ok, the reset button seems to be broken on my machine or something because it did nothing, but i did a hard reset and it sounded like the computer had the equivalent of a heart attack; all the lights shut off and it got dead silent the instant i tapped the paperclip to the terminals, then it came back alive and jumped back on the network at 192.168.1.99
Thanks for the idea Dogie, i didn't even think to look for a way to do a hard reset