No Firewall or System Restore after XP reinstall

Hi,
I did a format/reinstall of XP Home SP2 on a Medion MD9783 laptop. On reboot I had no IE shortcuts/access and I got error: framedyn.dll not found and Srclient.dll not found. Ran SFC /SCANNOW. No help. I followed MS support, found the misplaced framedyn.dll and copied it to another folder as instructed in the %SystemRoot% and checked the Path variable. Rebooted. Error msg is gone. Reinstalled IE8. Now that is fixed. However I now see that I have no restore points(I made one right after the OS install), cannot create a restore point(error msg says reboot and try again, but it won't work) and I cannot access Windows Firewall. I followed MS instructions for System Restore reinstall, no help. Firewall icon leads to a error msg that says that service isn't running, trying to start it when it offers the option to start the Firewall/ICS Service fails and another error pops up saying Firewall/ICS can not be started. The System Restore service is listed in Services as started. I ran MBAM and SAS(both full sys), all clean. Combofix stalled at "stage 1" of the scan and closes by it's self. Twice. Felt it best to not try a third time. SAS repair tool for fixing system restore, and kellys-korner system restore fixes failed.
Sorry if that was a bit confusing, but I have been buried in forums and support sites and digging into parts of the computer foreign to me, all night. Any help?
Thanks y'all
mannshands

 

Thanks for the tips. I did a repair install with the same old HP made XP install disc I have been using for all my computers. It has never failed me before and just successfully installed on another pc. So disk is ok.
The old problems are fixed and all files still intact! But now I have no Page file system. I get an error msg that a temporary page file was created and I should change my PF settings. I tried that, set to min 500, max 1000(my RAM=350Mb), I get a msg to restart to effect changes, but after restart the No PF Sys error returns, with an additional mention that my PF system may be larger than indicated.:confused
Did SCANNOW again. No change. I am about to try MS proceedure for:
Error Message: Your System Has No Paging File, or the Paging File Is Too Small
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315270
Is there another fix for PF Sys I am unaware of?
Cheers
mannshands

 

Never mind. I got it sorted. Did a full reinstall(without a reformat) with an old XP Pro cd I had laying around. Guess what? It installed correctly AND kept all the drivers I had installed AND the Avira install was intact! Brilliant!

Thanks for the assisstance
:wave