Akos Buzsaky enhanced his ever-growing reputation with two sublime individual goals, as ten-man Rangers sealed a crucial home victory against fellow strugglers Colchester United.
The Hungarian international capped a cameo individual display with a goal in each half, to lift the R's off the foot of the Championship table.
Mark Yeates ensured a nervy finale when he pulled a goal back in the 62nd minute, but - despite Damion Stewart seeing red for two bookable offences late on - Rangers held on for three priceless points.
In the R's final home fixture of 2007, Rowan Vine and Adam Bolder returned to the starting XI after one match bans, but there was no place in the 16 for Martin Rowlands, who was ruled out due to illness.
Colchester included veteran front-man Teddy Sheringham in attack, meaning former R's loanee Kevin Lisbie had to settle for a place amongst the substitutes.
Rangers were in the ascendancy from the first whistle.
Mikele Leigertwood and Akos Buzsaky combined to set up Vine, but Dean Gerken stood up well, saving with a strong right hand as the Birmingham loanee thrashed a fearsome second minute drive on target.
At the other end, Lee Camp was down well to save at his near post, after Johnnie Jackson let fly with a speculative 25-yard free-kick.
But it was the R's who were the better side, as Vine's cross shot flew inches wide and Blackstock headed a yard wide of Gerken's left hand post.
The goal the performance arguably deserved arrived in the 27th minute, courtesy of yet another Buzsaky wonder-goal.
Bob Malcolm's throw-in from the right flank found the Magical Magyar, who turned on a sixpence, got a yard on his marker and then unleashed an arrowing left footed drive in the roof of the net.
It was a goal fit to grace any stadium in the world, let alone the country - and immediately had the R's faithful breaking into a vocal rendition of the latest chant to grace the Loftus Road terraces, '1-0 to the Billionaires!'
The second half started in a similar fashion to the first period, with Buzsaky sending in an inviting 47th minute free-kick, which three advancing Rangers players just failed to connect with.
Undeterred, the R's were two goals to the good moments later, thanks to a fantastically worked team goal.
Chris Barker blocked Sheringham's attempted cross on the edge of the Rangers box and the ball fell at the feet of Vine, who - assisted by the over-lapping Barker - raced 40-yards towards goal.
He in turn fed a neat pass into Blackstock, who showed fantastic awareness to lay a first time ball to Buzsaky, who drew Gerken towards him before calmly slotting the ball beyond the goalkeeper's despairing dive.
Camp very nearly gifted Colchester an unlikely reprieve in the 54th minute, as he fumbled Kevin McLeod's cross into the path of Sheringham.
The evergreen striker seemed destined to bring the U's back in the game, only to fire against the foot of the post from little more than two yards.
Camp atoned for his earlier faux pas a minute later though, diving full stretch to his left to tip Luke Guttridge's 12-yard drive to safety.
But there was nothing the R's number one could do to prevent Yeates from halving the deficit in the 61st minute.
Zesh Rehman's ill-fated slip allowed the diminutive midfielder to race clean through on goal and he made no mistake, clipping a neat finish over the advancing Rangers stopper from ten yards.
Sheringham was perhaps a tad fortunate to receive just a prolonged ticking off from referee Mr Whitestone when he kicked out at Malcolm 20 minutes from time, while Stewart could count himself very unlucky when he was booked a minute later for a far lesser crime.
And it got worse for the big Jamaican defender in the 82nd minute, as he was shown a second yellow card and a resultant red, for a heavy challenge on Yeates.
But despite a flurry of late set-pieces from the visitors, Rangers - led heroically by substitute Simon Walton - defended with their lives to grind out a valuable victory.
QPR: Camp, Barker, Stewart, Bolder, Blackstock (Nygaard 75), Buzsaky, Ainsworth, Malcolm, Vine, Rehman, Leigertwood (Walton 83).
Subs: Cole, Moore, Balanta.
Scorers: Buzsaky 27 & 52
Bookings: Leigertwood 67, Stewart 73
Red Cards: Stewart 82
Colchester United: Gerken, Granville, Jackson, Sheringham (Lisbie 71), Platt, Izzet (Guttridge 36), Yeates, Baldwin (Guy 88), McLeod, Virgo, Balogh.
Subs: Cousins, Duguid.
Scorers: Yeates 62
Bookings: Balogh 10, Baldwin 48, Lisbie 87, Virgo 93
Referee: Mr D Whitestone
Attendance: 12, 464
