Gerald,
Sorry to hear about your meltdown. I've been there myself (literally, meltdown. My mobo voltage regulator fried, taking everything else with it in the ensuing voltage spike!)
As a PC tech, I wouldn't recommend saving things to floppy anymore. Floppies are magnetic medium, and therefore deteriorate. Burning to CD is the best idea that I can give you. With the price of burners and the medium, you can pick up a decent ffast burner for less than alot of model kits. I also have a small 20GB HDD in my system just to use as a backup, but it can fail, too, and more often than you think.
Partition Magic is also a good alternative if you need space, but be careful. Older versions will seriously mess up 2000 and XP. I've seen it several times. Be sure to do your research before doing anything drastic.
If you need any help or advice, feel free to drop me a line.
demono69