that might work..except I kind of have to leave the country for the summer in 3 or 4 days, and I don't know if they could fix it by then..

so I seem to have gotten my laptop to work and all that, minus the keyboard, which I will probably have to replace in august when I get back from Europe..for now I'm using my Mac's usb keyboard, which seems to work fine
thank you all for all your help :)
hopefully this thread will pop up in google and help some other poor soul lol