I just got a new Toshiba laptop...and I need halp D:

[Zovistograt]

Sounds like you might have some bad drivers installed, such as Windows Vista. :P
Downgrade to XP.

I'd love to, but I don't have a copy of XP with me at the moment and The Best Buy guy (who I hope is lying) said that you can't downgrade to XP cleanly because of unsupported hardware.

likely not, xp supports most hardware, it's vista that doesnt. u dont need new hardware ,do you?

this is a new computer, I hope not :D

So would just running another OS solve the problem?  Does the problem solely have to do with Vista?

Most likely.

hmm...Ubuntu? :D