There is some sort of cycle

[KARL]

that dictates you will find apparently unconnected things breaking down in groups all within days if not hours. It seems I am exactly there in my cycle. One of the bits that has me stumped is that my 2-3 month old 1Gb memory stick is not functioning correctly. Although it is detected and recognised, as soon as I try to access it I get asked to put a disk in the drive. It almost seems it is recognised as a floppy drive. I was saving to it when everything went pear shaped. I have heard that flash cards sometimes get scrambled but they can be unscrambled. Could this be the problem with my stick ? Any suggestions or past experience of this, anyone ?