Additional pieces to the puzzle..(I just remembered...duh!)

About the same time I was sizing my av's, I installed Yahoo messenger (never had it till then).....and I still had Norton in and those two didn't seem to like each other........ex: If I signed completely out of Yahoo....my browser bar would go blank.....I still had a Start button but it didn't say Start on it after sign out of Yahoo. After I uninstalled Norton.....my Start button still reads Start!

Oh........and the error message to make me think Norton was part of the problem said something to the effect that (and I'm paraphrasing here)....there is something missing in my anti-virus program that will not allow my computer to boot up completely.......so it came up in safe mode. Sounds to me like Norton got corrupted somehow......by Yahoo, maybe?...and then all hell broke loose!

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