Your Registry is borked. If you've made an Emergency Repair Disk, you can boot up with the Windows2k/XP CD and initiate a repair using the ERD (recovering the Registry to where it was when you made the ERD), or in the worst case, have the install CD attempt to make the repair on its own. You'll lose all of your Registry settings (and any patches not slipstreamed onto the disc) in the latter case, but Windows will work.
There might be another way to deal with the problem (somehow manually editing the Registry files to remove the corrupted entry?), but you'd have to ask the more experienced users on this board.
Having some computer difficulties.
Moderator: Thanas
Shouldn't there be a registry backup? Anyway, this is why using a binary database for the registry sucks.
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