Not sure, but I'll tell you what - the reference to borat and the reference to the old cartoon noises made me lol irl. Try right clicking my computer, and going to properties, go to the hardware tab, and then click device manager. What does it show for your USB ports? It could be possible that there was some kind of surge... but I doubt it, I'd rather tell you that it's just a problem with your motherboard and simply reinstalling your drivers would fix it - but it's a long shot. As for java, are you using sun java or microsoft java VM? Try clearing your java cache