I’m running 98 at the moment. I’m going to try running a registry mechanic to see if that helps.
It only started doing this yesterday, so it hasn’t been an ongoing problem. The only thing I’ve done recently is clean out the IE Temp files, but I doubt that it has anything to do with that.
To me it sounds like your FAT32 filesystem has eaten some of your critical system files… a typical problem for OS’es with a FAT filesystem. The only sensible solution is to reinstall, since if your system files are corrupted, there are probably 100’s of other corrupt files as well.