Jacob,
Although this suggestion will not help your current
situation, it will in the future. Consider using Image for
Windows. Sounds like you have a need to put your system back
to a solid starting point quite frequently. With Image for
Windows, you build your basic OS and all necessary programs
This is a bit of a long shot, but last week after I tried to restore my
windows XP machine back to a slightly older restore point due to it starting
to have a couple operating system issues most likely due to all the
software/configuration testing I've done on it, as per usual, but the
machine
