I can't stop worrying about the HSF and its installation; It consumes my thoughts, day and night.

1. What's the worst that could happen if I put on too much grease?

2. Does the grease conduct heat better than the metal-to-cpu touching directly(That is, in a perfect world, in which the heatsink bottom and cpu core surface are perfectly shaped to the atomic level)

2. Is it a really bad thing to get grease on the ceramic?

I'm going to go nuts.

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Athlon 1.4ghz, Epox 8K7A+, 512mb Crucial PC2100, Elsa Gladiac 920, Hercules Game Theatre XP, Maxtor 40gb, Creative Encore 12x, HP 9310i 10x4x32, 3com & Netgear NICs