>Some anti-virus packages stop anything from happening that they consider "virus-like" behaviour. Depending on how aggressive the package is, that could include changes to registry settings, modification of critical .DLLs in the \SYSTEM directory, etc.
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>If you CAN temporarily turn off NAV, I'd do so and try a complete uninstall/reinstall cycle again.

Okay. It's worth a shot. I'll try it. I'd rather exhaust these other flavors of recovery than reinstall Windows NT and have to rebuild this system all over again.