Won't boot, how to remove trojan from DOS with CD?

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Hi, thank you for viewing my problem.
*Please note I have read the steps, I cannot follow them due to being unable to get further than the safe mode screen then PC freezing*

Briefly: I went in hospital for 3 days, came out, found computer on, monitor off, the computer was frozen (it was like that for the full 3days! Both my husband and my 4yo son were on it). I re-started it,then the mouse went mad, I suspected a trojan probably through e-mail so tried to do AVG scan, it froze, re-booted, tried to do on-line scan through Norton it froze, tried to update AVG it froze... *sigh* then on the next re-boot it said couldn't find registry files & also seeking drivers... OK to further complicate problems we just moved so my: system's disk, cd-key & back-ups are all packed away somewhere safe In the start-up I've set it to boot with the CD-RW .

System:
Asus Desktop
Pentium III, 1000 ghz
Windows ME
30 GIG Seagate HDD (with 80% resources available!)
256 MB RAM (42MB shared with video)
floppy
CD 52x (slave)
CD-rw 12x/32x/48x (master)

Software:
AVG personal (was up to date)
Sygate Firewall personal (set to "medium" level)
Ad-aware
Highjack this
CClean
AVERT
(plus more which allude me right now, however none of them conflicted with the others & all were up-to-date)

*Please note I've had this system for nearly 6 years, kept it clean and un-clogged by junk, no games, no MP3, no unknown downloads, not even any pop-ups. DESPITE being WinME it has "always" run without ANY problems or without showing any signs of being unstable until I was hospitalised as mentioned above!

One of my problems is that the computer I'm using right now is a laptop with no floppy, so can't make rescue disk as the on-line downloads all seem to be for floppy. I did manage to find a boot disk download for CDs (bootdisk.comDOS tools for CD) on so downloaded that and got into DOS with it. I ran (from DOS) checkdisk & scandisk no problems, no errors or damaged files were found. I tried to copy some of the files I needed from c: to D: but either I can't remember my DOS commands properly or it's not recognising the CD drive (which is odd as I used it for the boot disk) after running through all the checks (memcheck ect...) I also tried going to safe-mode but it just freezes once I'm in there. (I tried doing the alt+ctrl+del which brings up the screen and shows NO applications running) I can't do anything in safe mode the "start" button isn't even visible the only option is "shut down". I hope I'm being accurate enough...

I have thousands of pictures on there (trips, family ect...) some I need to access sooner than later aside from the pics there's a few files I want to keep & well there's e-mail adrress books ect... My current goal is to get my pictures off!! The rest can wait for a real clean-up. Once I have the files I need, I can re-format, this desktop was ear-marked to become my son's (4yo) for his CD-games.

I also don't want to transfer files to my new laptop until I know all the trojans, rookits ect... are GONE!) As above this laptop has no floppy & most of the programs I find to try and fix the problem with the desktop are not compatible with the laptop running Windows XP-2 *sigh* So downloading has been tricky at best. Please help me find a way to burn CDs/or fix the problem with the files I need to start tracking down the problems.
I'm in New Zealand so I might be posting at odd times. Please bear with me I'll try to answer any questions. ANY help will be greatly appreciated.

Thx
Leafy

 

Ok I do have an 80GB HDD around somewhere that was going to be going into it along with some more RAM & XP upgrade. However we just moved and that's my major problem all my stuff is packed away somewhere I can't re-install as I don't know where my disks are. This place is 1/3 the size of one we moved from still trying to figure out where things are? I'm not sure I want to sacrifice a new HDD (even if I can find it) if this is a virus, malware, rookit ect... I suspected as soon as I mentioned WinME as the OS that would be what the first to get the blame that's why I did mention that the system up until now ran flawlessly for nearly 6 years (so in Me terms probably means I got the lemon that ran properly! . I'm not convinced that it's the problem so would very much like to try and get a rescue CD done just to make sure if not, can I run any of the other programs in DOS? Like AVG ect... at the very least can someone point me out to a site with DOS commands as I am VERY rusty in this area it's been a long, long time since I did anything in DOS. Thx Meanwhile I'll go tear apart more boxes just in case I get lucky and find all my stuff.