Bruce,

This is a big time nasty problem! I'll report it but I can't do it until this evening. You might try reporting it on the MS bug report page.

>Er, I have some good and bad news.
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>Bad news: Each time I restart the machine, the same problem returns.
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>Good news: Now the I have the "regsvr32 shdoc401.dll" in the Run list, I just fire it and the problem disappears again for the session.
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>But, I guess I'm still looking for a permanent fix...apparently something causes the shdoc401.dll entry to be overwritten each bootup?