UPDATE: I'm finding out that the resume thing isn't so daunting. And will have it done in the next few days working on it a little bit each night, and have my mother review what i have done so far while she's still in state.
The bad is that the U computers started passwording only the usb booting feature on all their computers. They did that a heck of a lot sooner than expected. Although telling my friend who works in tech support about they're horrible security weakness, probably helped to institute a new standard. Oh well, i still have live-cds and thumb drives. And when they start passwording that...on to make a bootable floppy for a live cd...etc. Idk why they didn't just require an administrator password for booting any kind of media rather than just passwording the boot from usb. Seems pretty dumb that they would not password all bootable features upon startup on their computers, and only do just one.