I posted this in another forum, but I will post it here because I want as many responses as I can get as quickly as I can.

I had to leave it at my friends house and will have to tow it to school tomorrow. I just thought I would question the expert panel as to why you think it failed. The story goes, I was leaving my friends house and everything was fine. I drove about a mile and was going to go to the store. I couldn't find a parking spot and put it in reverse and it wasn't there. I put it in drive and it was there but weak. After several tries, I managed to get a weak reverse that was hardly enough to get me back on to the road. The transmission was slipping badly. I went to drive and there was nothing there. I went all of the way down to the first detent at got a weak first that slipped badly and was able to limp the mile back to my friends house. I tried to shift to second, but it was non existant. In the dark, the fluid appeared black and was definately burnt. The fluid was fine not long ago and the transmission gave no warning of this failure. No prior slipping and no odd noises.