Well, I managed to get it fixed after a bit of work, but thanks a great deal for your suggestions. I appreciate your help. Not wanting to lose anything, I wanted to do a repair install, but I...

Well, no such luck yet. Anyone else able to give any advice?

Thanks for the reply. Back to business, I have firefox and have been using it to try to fix these problems all along. I also have ad-aware and use it weekly, but I was infected by PSGuard which I...

Even when I boot my computer in safe mode, windows explorer will not stay open for three seconds without restarting itself--making it difficult to run anything that's not on my desktop and making the...