Mirar and friends got a hold on me

I am infected, its detected but it won't go away.

I followed the "do this scan first procedure" at majorgeeks with a couple of exceptions:

1. I scanned in normal mode, not Safe Mode.
2. For some reason Trend Micro's on-line scan would not work and PCcillen would not download.
3. Symantec's on line scan did not report any details; it just told me I was vulnerable and tried to sell me software.
4. I got AV Personal virus alerts poping up during several scans; including during:

St1inger
SpyBot
HS Remove

Symptoms that led me to tackle this problem:

1. My Add/Remove Programs list contains "Related Page" - a hijacking program that will not allow itself to be removed. Instead it pop's up a Mirar removal page which then directs me to a website that wants to sell me more software.

2. On my Desktop is an interesting new icon (lower right) in the active programs section of the tool bar: a flashing, upside down yield sign with exclamation (!) mark in the center. I used this icon to mark my post. That icon gives me an occasional alert with the word "exploit" in the message and sometimes it sends a "critical system message" pop up to the middle of the desktop. If I double click on the flashing icon it opens a pop up window titled "MSN", underneath which is a list of anti-ad-ware advertising.

3. I get a pop up when I boot up (it is a blank window called MSN Messenger). I get sporadic popup advertisements while on the web (like right now it happened).

I got a few reports during the comprehensive Majorgeeks recommended scan. I list these below. What is interesting is that my HijackThis log shows many URL's and files that do no show in the HijackThis scan window. I recognize many problems listed in the log but when I run HijackThis,the problems are not visible so I cannot Fix them.

Here are the many messages I got during the scans:

NoAdware found and said it removed this:
Troj_Agent_Local_Machine\Software\lvRegKey

But that has been found and removed several times before and continues to reappear.

During Spybot, St1nger etc, the following Alert was displayed by AV Personal:

C:\Windows|Popuper.EXE is the Trojan: TR/Drop.Puper.D.1

and also, this:

C:\Windows\System32\INTMONP.EXE is the Trojan: TR/Drop.Puper.D.2

These two alerts appear regulary during scans and other times.

Thanks in advance for any help

tw