Yes, that's all taken care of. I've put the USB first in the boot list and even tried selecting it as the boot device manually with the f12 menu.
Alright, I'll try that out and see what I get.
By the way, I've got past the "grub rescue>" problem but I still can't boot from a USB device. I always get the error "Missing Operating System." now... Anyways, if I can't get this working tonight I'm going to get an external DVD drive and try to boot from that instead.