messenger_of_the_void

I have replaced the front brakes, including calipers on my mom's Stratus. Unfortunately, afterwards, I bled the brakes, but the pedal still went to the floor. The brakes catch only at the end. I figured some air in the line, so I bled all 4 wheels...many times, tried gravity bleeding for an hour, bleeding all around by pumping the brake and holding, not letting the pedal up until the screw is closed w/ friend, etc... Still no help. We tried so many times I considered the master cylinder going, but I replaced it and no improvement. I've heard of bleeding the cylinder, but we've kept the reservoir full and bled so much, I would think it must be ok...but I can't imagine what else. I've also heard of bleeding abs, but I followed lines and I only see proportioning valves from what I could find. Is there some specific bleeding method to this car that would cause the pedal to basically hit the floor? I can't imagine how air is still in there somewhere because we've bled the crap out of them, but I can't imagine what else could be wrong either. If anyone can help here, I'd be greatly appreciative :-P.

On the aforementioned car, the light that lights up the gear selected is out. I have the bulb and all ready to replace, and I'm just a little nervous about taking the instrument panel apart, because there are no visible screws. Anyone have experience with this car? I figure it probably prys out somehow, but I'd like to know for sure so I don't break it.

I am a little confused about just how it works with regard to current flow. As far as I know, current flows from the negative pole to the positive, because electrons are attracted to the positive source.

Looking at power lines, I know the voltage is "stepped down" from high voltage carrier lines, to substations, and stepped down again before it gets to a house. Every pole has a ground wire run into the earth, which is the negative. My question is, then isn't the truth that, since the ground is the negative end, that the electricity should be flowing in the opposite direction, and that the voltage is actually "stepped up"?

Also, the truth is that if you touch one wire and not the ground, you don't get zapped. If the current is coming from the ground, and not trying to get to the ground, why can we safely touch the bare ground wire on poles?

I notice if I install some Win98-era games on XP (x64 Edition), they work just fine in every respect except recognizing Direct3D graphics. They have their little setup screen, and you select software rendering, OpenGL, or Direct3D, depending on the game--in Win98 anyway.

In XP, a lot of them are sans the Direct3D option. I just don't get why everything else works but that. Is there a way to get them to recognize that I have a video card (GeForce 7600 GS)? I have an Athlon 4200+ dual core, 2GB of RAM, and it's choppy because I have to use OpenGL. As I understand, OpenGL and Direct3D are both valid APIs, unless OpenGL is just falling back on software mode. I just don't see why it detects one and not the other, and why OpenGL seems to suck when it's a comparable API.