Happy Birthday Patrick...my 19th Birthday was the 17th so congrats to us and all the other people whose birthdays are around ours! Hope your birthday was awesome!

The case is fabric.

I am going to be completely honest with you. I have no idea....my guess would be that you do need a cd drive to do an upgrade like that but then again, you might not. My first Mac came with Tiger and I upgraded to Leopard with a DVD so that is as far as my experiences go.

Yeah, I took some pics of me wearing them for you. I'm sending them in a message if I can...

Yeah, it's just a kernel panic. i have had two on my Macbook Pro in the year and a half I have had it. Once with Tiger and once with Leopard. Just restart and OS X should be fine. If it isn't, take it to an Apple store or an authorized Apple repair center and they for sure can sort out what happened and fix it no problem.