Another victim of the Somalia hackers

My account was hacked in such a way that the system wouldn't allow me to change my password. I could not access the account and I couldn't change the password. However, someone else was in my account apparently because when I eventually changed my password and logged in I see several calls to Somalia that depleted my balance. I have made a request to Skype to get me my money back, but I don't know how successful that will be.
I think there's some exploit out there that we don't fully understand. My system is well protected, updated anti-virus, malware-free, etc., so I don't believe this is a straightforward password theft. Moreover, the hackers appear to have figured out some way of invalidating your password token as well. I was able to get the password token to my email account but when I tried changing my password, there was an error message directing me to customer service. Tried this a couple of times, then complained to customer service, and by now my account was locked out so I couldn't even change my password.
Is there any hope of getting my money back? And is someone at Skype studying what's going on with these attacks?

Hello kma346:
Welcome to Apple discussions
You are experiencing kernel panics. This knowledge base article gives more information about kernel panics:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227
I suggest you run the hardware checker that is on your software install DVD. Unless you made recent software changes, you may have hardware problems. If the checker shows no errors, run repair disk from your software install DVD.
You can also check on the health of your hard drive by opening disk utility and then highlighting the hD (not your files). At the bottom is someting called S.M.A.R.T. If that says anything other than "verified," you have HD problems.
The garbled video may be a completely different problem. Read this (from the main discussion page) to see if it applies to you:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
Barry
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Hello kma346:
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Barry
Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill (to add information)

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