Installed with disastrous results

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I decided to upgrade my Redhat 9 to Fedora Core lastnite (12/2/03 9:30pm).
Install seemed well until I rebooted.  I simply got the word "GRUB" with a
blinking cursor.  No selections, couldn't type anything at all.  Thankfully
I created a boot disk, so I was able to boot into Fedora.  Installing grub
was a disaster.  It is now 5am, and I just now reached my windows desktop
after searching all over for a bootable windows cd to fix my mbr.  The
install seemed so simple that even I could do it, but no such thing.  Thru
the night it went from bad to worse to where the internet wouldn't even work
anymore.  I went to many forums and asked around for help but got no help.
I went back and did a fresh install of linux, told it not to install any
bootloader, but I still got the grub screen.   I went to various how-to's to
try an configure grub, no luck.  I tried everything I can think of until it
literally brought me down to tears.  I love being a tech chick and I really
want to get into this linux thing, but this experience has been very
discouraging.

At this point I'm considering removing all traces of linux off this system
for good, but I don't want to go out like that.  I really want to know how
to fix the problem and learn from it.  At this point I can still boot from
the floppy I think, but I'm scared to even reboot my system now, and I'd
rather have a menu  choice to boot from instead of a floppy.  (floppies tend
to find their way "reformatted" around here)

Can someone please steer a nice lady like myself in the right direction and
start over and fix my boot now?  Can I even edit my boot.ini in windows?

Thank you very much

Deb