Thanks...been trying to locate a non-OEM Vista disc without having to go buy one! Will let you know if I get it to work. If I can't find it, only solution would be to reset entire thing back to it's original state!
Wasn't able to find a copy but there was a partition set up on the machine so I was able to fix only the Windows portion of the drive and keep everything on the second partition in tact.
thanks for all the help!