Thank God I didnt have to reinstall the system… because it was already on a machine that was downconverted from vista to xp pro.
Anyway, my tech friend was able to solve the problem, it was probably a recently installed screen capture software…
however we still had to run the adobecs3cleaner program and he had to go through and really scope out all the .dll files…
pain in the but, its always good to have a techy friend…