Wyodiver33, irieemon, Flippy, BoCo, and charliex. Thank you!!! That did the trick. It fixed my problem. Though Charliex's comment left me with an uneasy feeling. Why would <i>system restore</i> delete documents, exe's and especially files on the c? Anybody care to elaborate on that? And, let me know if there is a way to see exactly what files system restore removed. Thanks again, I knew I'd get great help here.
heyal256, thanks for all your suggestions, but I don't know why you recommended something like Norton Systemworks. I just got done reading a thread here in Tilted Computing where people were complaining about how Norton Systemworks corrupts the drives it installs on <b>50%</b> of the time. I directly quoted that from Pragma:
http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....300#post477300