system restore isn't something that I regularly think of. I like to try and figure stuff out...... may be the "hard" way but I find it rewarding in the end.
I also found, in my earlier years, that using system restore removes some other things I wanted or was working on so I never use it.............. kinda rates up there with "reformat the drive".......... so many people seem to blurt out as a problem solver without taking anything else into consideration.
Glad you got it working though.