Success

I got the screw out of the Think Pad by the very slow and careful application of brute force. Pulled the hard drive out, wielded my mad epoxy sk1lz to repair the hard drive tray damage due to it being the wrong screw while the drive was mirrored, put hard drive back in, and it booted just fine. *whew*

Go me!

-the redhead-
...still not King...