i got a 1200 from canada a couple years ago and it was packaged pretty poorly. however when i fired it up it not only ran perfectly (after i put the simms back into the ram card that wasnt mentioned in the ebay description) i saw that it had a hard drive too also not in the description.
that harddrive died not too long after also. travel is pretty rough on those older hds. you sound like you got it pretty bad on this one.
