It appears that booting into the recovery console and deleting the jkkKaaby.dll followed by using HijackThis to kill the entry which now said that it was missing the same dll has solved this issue.
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I believe that the jkkKaaby.dll was the culprit for my woes.

I booted into the recovery console and manually deleted it, then removed the entry in HijackThis. So far so good, hopefully it won't...

I've observed and read through numerous threads where users are having identical issues to what I am dealing with. The explorer.exe just continually restarts.

I have run Avast, Kaspersky, AVG and...