Usually, the scans they use are available to the rest of us. I'm not a "geek", but I've done this for a lot of years and almost always find my way to a solution, and it never involves the geek squad. In fact, I have had to fix more stuff they messed up than they have had to follow up on me. I'm glad your experience has always worked out. That tells me that they are hiring better personnel than they used to.
Good job guy!!!