system restore/IE blank

So a little more detail..

A program on the computer auto updated.. I'm guessing either Norton or XP SP2, I'm not exactly sure, I wasn't around for that. So on the next restart System Restore shows up blank if it even shows up at all. Internet Explorer comes up blank below the Address Bar, and various other programs have Notifications, menus, update information, blank.

I'm guessing it is a script error. I talked to some other people, and I did Run: regsvr32 jscript.dll, regsvr32 vbscript.dll, and regsvr32 /i __html file (or close) that was recommended as procedure. It didn't work.

I looked on what I believe was Microsoft's site and it said that there were 3 Inproxserver32 folders in regedit that needed to have the default files with values reading C:\windows\system32\jscript.dll. Instead, 2 of the 3 defaults read C:\program files\common files\symantec shared\script blocking\scrauth.dll. So I change them to what they're supposed to read, and it does nothing. And after the restart, the defaults change back to C:\program files\..........\scrauth.dll. So that did not work either.

Also, I've checked the system restore program control setting was on Automatic and what not that other people had suggested also.

I'm at a loss. I can't roll back prior the update, safe mode has the same problems. None of the manual editing works thus far. I don't know enough about exactly what type of scripts are used to know what the problems are.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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