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You mock my machine and rightly so, but I'm sure his is better and thats my point.

The TF2 inventory goes missing all the time, but its always come back.
Check again right now. Its been an entire 7 minutes.

SPOOON!

My specs (on my proflie page) are pretty darn good for TF2, Portal2 etc considering how old my technology is. The limit of the motherboard is 2GB (Two slots only, they though ahead in 2003) and I'm always very close to that limit when I play. (normal is 36 processes, 10% CPu, 80-ish% 1.59GB RAM with steam without any game running)
My point is, newer hardware should be pretty darn good for running just about anything. Any apparent issue (beyond ram and video card) is probably related to Windows optimizations or lack thereof.
I have no idea if I can run RAVAGED well, but I could probably play decently. I'm fairly certain this won't do for a game like Crysis regardless of what the store page says.

I think that just by coincidence the files for CS:GO just happened to write to a bad sector. This could have been any file really. Quite literally this has nothing to do with CS:GO itself.

I think your hard drive is about to become non-functional.
Please run Window's own disk check utility and do the full scan to recover bad sectors.
You will notice as you try this it can't do that because windows is running. DO schedule the diskcheck and reboot when you have HOURS of time to not be at the computer. The full disk check can take over 3 hours and its in 5 different stages. All you have to do is not cancel it at reboot. Once its done, it will reboot normally, hopefully having fixed any software problem with the file/folder structure of the disk.
If it doesn't then you will have to buy a new internal hard drive and do a clean install of windows... and then copy all your files, games and settings over while your old drive still spins/works. Talk it over with a local nerd before you actually start formatting drives. Most of the effort is prep-work so you can restore everything without problems.

Your credit card info will be stored online at the steam store website but only if you put it there and check the box telling it to remember. Perhaps go there now and make sure nothing is stored.
1) Put a bogus item in your cart
2) proceed to checkout
3) look at the existing info
4) clear or re-enter the info, make sure it saves.

Once thats done your good to cancel or buy. Be sure you don't accidently buy though. Valve doesn't do refunds.

(Kiya beat me to it)

This message (and the one I responded to in the Steam Community forum) would be better suited in the Defense Grid forum. You obviously found a bug that nobody else has. I still recommend you confirm the timestamp on those achievements to see if it was when you were playing.

From the main steam window click on the menus at the top.
"View">"Settings"
On this screen at the bottom should be a checkbox that I think you may have accidently checked.

[x] Don't save account credentials on this computer

Clear the checkbox and try again.

Virtual Memory is otherwise known as the swap file or the pagefile.
Windows manages a possibly huge file that stores spill-over data when you've used up all your computer's actual RAM. The program is just telling you to increase the size.

On windows find the My Computer icon (on Windows7, its stupidly named to just "Computer"). You want to right-click it and pick properties from the pop-up menu. Find the Advanced systems ettings then dig through to the performance settings. Use either the Recommended size shown on the screen or some multiple of 1024 MB. Use that same number for the initial and the maximum size textboxes and click the "Set" button. By the way, you would want to enter a number larger than what it currently says or this won't help solve that problem with RAVAGED at all.

I have omitted some steps in how to get to the screen but you should be able to figure it out. Its basically the same for all Window's versions. Post again if you need help/clarification.