Bad thing about a corrupt profile is that you lose all the shortcuts on the desktop a long with the Docs files. You can recreate it, but it just grabs the default profile and whatever is in "all users". Unless there is a roaming profile in effect (which I highly doubt it), it will just make a default first time user profile. Might be you could recreate the profile and then copy shortcuts from another user's pc.
I know I said against nuking it, but it might be the next choice. If I had it in front of me, I could tell you more. I could remote into it and check it out, for some concert tickets
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