It started back up, thankfully. What a relief. Now, ...lol... my antivrus program keeps removing minerd.exe.
I specifically excluded minerd's path in my antivirus program (Norton).
OK. Thanks for the help. I have one more issue.
I stopped the wallet while it was loading from bootstrap. After opening it back up again, it's stuck. The connections are there, but the import is stuck.
well now.
I have never tried using the bottstrap - so have never ran into that problem.
My first thought is the wallet is "starting over" with the import - but you can't see anything happening until it gets back up to the block you stopped it at.
You should be able to tell if the hard drive light on your pc is mostly on - or flickering a lot.