I finally got done reformatting and reinstalling Windows on my machine.
He gave me back the card.
What a horrible experience this is\was.
I lost .5 BTC in the whole thing because the thief (whoever it is... I am so confused) got everything in my wallet and I had .5 before this entire transaction with the USB stick and the 7970 sale happened.
Do the right thing and have an old laptop or machine running linux, if you are going to store a lot of value in BTC.