Alias, from your description of the humming noise, it sounds like it could easily be a wheel bearing, especially if it goes away when turning in one dirction or the other. If you wanna discuss it more, I recomend taking it to the troubleshooting forum if you haven't already, or you could PM me, though I don't know a whole lot.
Too bad people don't have the decency to help somoene out with what is probably a simple problem, especially a 16 yr old kid who wants to learn
To bring things back on topic, sounds like this is gonna be a cool get together, wish I could come but i plan to go to the St Ignace car show, might even put the Contour in it! Woot! First show for me...
