well i disabled the rpc thing even though i wasn't supposed to. i don't follow directions well. here were the instructions:
http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...threadid=75907 if probably would have worked too. I trashed 2pcs plus a laptop doing this. So DO NOT DISABLE THE RPC SERVICES. just to let u know it's not pretty. wouldn't let me move ,copy, paste, disconnect interent, open files, who knows what else.
Reformat, Reformat, Reformat boom all i got is windows xp and ms office on them + the patch thats it.
hopefully that will solve the problem for the time being.