Modding my Eee PC

So I know this is kind of an old topic, but I got an Eee PC 900A for a steal ($180) and I decided that I might try modifying it like everyone else had done to theirs. Little did I know, however, that the 900A was one of the worst models I could possibly buy (I was eyeing the 901, but I just didn't have enough money, so I bought whatever I could), at least for modification purposes, because there is practically no space on the inside of that computer. But I've still gone ahead with it. This is my story.

Despite having broken my touchscreen controller in a boneheaded mistake that involved an absence of electrical tape, having found out that the bluetooth-wifi-combo PCI-express card that I had bought didn't work with Linux, and having broken my touchpad cable, I still became ever-more determined to keep chugging on. Actually, that's not what happened. It sat under a pile of crap half-taken apart for about 4 months while I went to try other things that weren't such a big waste of money if they were done wrong. Then, after having migrated back to expensive hobbies and realizing that my power supply had arrived DOA with an expired warranty (I didn't try it out until 2 weeks after it arrived), I went back to the Eee.

I took apart an old USB hub, stripped open a Bluetooth dongle, and found an old flash drive with its connector fallen off. I soldered them all together, popped them all in, rearranged it several times, and then bam! It... sort of worked. And by sort of, I meant it worked, but it brought several other things down with it.

Apparently, when you're using the camera USB connection and the computer realizes that what's connected is not a camera but instead a USB hub, it decides that it will make your life as miserable as it possibly can. I now cannot connect any USB drive to the computer and I can't boot from a USB drive, rendering the installation of an 8GB flash drive to allow more space for an installation useless, considering I can't boot and install Linux in the first place. So I'm sitting here, typing on my Lenovo X61 Tablet, with the Eee sitting beside me, and I'm contemplating throwing the cute little thing out the window. Either that, or turn a fan on, because the heat of the thing is melting the electrical tape that I installed inside and making a really noxious smell.

What should I do now? Fly a kite? I'm much too digital for everyday life. And it's 95 degrees outside, with 50% humidity. Blech.