Still no change unfortunately. Log from findlop pasted below.

[TRACE] Enumerating jobs and queues
[TRACE] Activating job 'ISP signup reminder 1.job'
[TRACE] Printing all job properties

ApplicationName: 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\OOBE\OOBEBALN.EXE'
Parameters: '/sys /i /n:1'
WorkingDirectory: ''
Comment: ''
Creator: 'SYSTEM'
Priority: NORMAL
MaxRunTime: 259200000 (3d 0:00:00)
IdleWait: 10
IdleDeadline: 60
MostRecentRun: 00/00/0000 0:00:00
NextRun: 00/00/0000 0:00:00
StartError: SCHED_S_TASK_HAS_NOT_RUN
ExitCode: 0
Status: SCHED_S_TASK_HAS_NOT_RUN
ScheduledWorkItem Flags:
DeleteWhenDone = 0
Suspend = 0
StartOnlyIfIdle = 0
KillOnIdleEnd = 0
RestartOnIdleResume = 0
DontStartIfOnBatteries = 0
KillIfGoingOnBatteries = 0
RunOnlyIfLoggedOn = 0
SystemRequired = 0
Hidden = 0
TaskFlags: 0

1 Trigger

Trigger 0:
Type: Once
StartDate: 04/24/2003
EndDate: 00/00/0000
StartTime: 00:00
MinutesDuration: 1440
MinutesInterval: 15
Flags:
HasEndDate = 0
KillAtDuration = 0
Disabled = 0


[TRACE] Activating job 'Norton AntiVirus - Scan my computer.job'
[TRACE] Printing all job properties

ApplicationName: 'C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~2\NORTON~1\Navw32.exe'
Parameters: '/task:"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Norton AntiVirus\Tasks\mycomp.sca"'
WorkingDirectory: ''
Comment: 'This is a schedule scan task from Norton AntiVirus.'
Creator: 'NealCallaghan'
Priority: NORMAL
MaxRunTime: 259200000 (3d 0:00:00)
IdleWait: 10
IdleDeadline: 60
MostRecentRun: 04/14/2006 20:00:00
NextRun: 04/21/2006 20:00:00
StartError: S_OK
ExitCode: 0
Status: SCHED_S_TASK_READY
ScheduledWorkItem Flags:
DeleteWhenDone = 0
Suspend = 0
StartOnlyIfIdle = 0
KillOnIdleEnd = 0
RestartOnIdleResume = 0
DontStartIfOnBatteries = 0
KillIfGoingOnBatteries = 0
RunOnlyIfLoggedOn = 1
SystemRequired = 0
Hidden = 0
TaskFlags: 0

1 Trigger

Trigger 0:
Type: Weekly
WeeksInterval: 1
DaysOfTheWeek: .....F.
StartDate: 04/11/2006
EndDate: 00/00/0000
StartTime: 20:00
MinutesDuration: 0
MinutesInterval: 0
Flags:
HasEndDate = 0
KillAtDuration = 0
Disabled = 0


[TRACE] Activating job 'Symantec NetDetect.job'
[TRACE] Printing all job properties

ApplicationName: 'C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\NDetect.exe'
Parameters: ''
WorkingDirectory: 'C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate'
Comment: 'Symantec NetDetect'
Creator: 'SYSTEM'
Priority: NORMAL
MaxRunTime: 259200000 (3d 0:00:00)
IdleWait: 10
IdleDeadline: 60
MostRecentRun: 00/00/0000 0:00:00
NextRun: 04/16/2006 22:08:00
StartError: 0x80070002
ExitCode: 0
Status: SCHED_S_TASK_HAS_NOT_RUN
ScheduledWorkItem Flags:
DeleteWhenDone = 0
Suspend = 0
StartOnlyIfIdle = 0
KillOnIdleEnd = 0
RestartOnIdleResume = 0
DontStartIfOnBatteries = 0
KillIfGoingOnBatteries = 0
RunOnlyIfLoggedOn = 1
SystemRequired = 0
Hidden = 0
TaskFlags: 0

I think we have pretty well exhausted many incidental malware items as possible causes of your CORE OE problem. We can certainly try a few commercial tools on a trial basis, if you want, but I am not sure we are going to find our defining issue there.


I would now ask that you post to the XP forum for a potentially more productive change in focus:
http://www.d-a-l.com/help/forumdisplay.php?f=2



Please refer to this thread: http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread.php?t=38200 by way of introduction and for background matters already addressed.