Thanks and I appreciate the suggestion, but after I rebooted into safe mode the second time, it seemed to run fine, although I did see quite a lot of "access denied" while monitoring the softwares work on my computer. Although I thought that was a bit odd, it got really weird when the process finally finished. All of my (FILE.***) extensions seemed to be resetting themselves almost immediately after completion and my stock virus protection was turned off. Please keep in mind this was installed on a brand new installation of windows within the past 24 hours. I have attached some screen shots for you to see what I mean. Does anyone know if this seems normal? Am I infected with a virus and if so, it would seem that it is able to survive a wipe, format and reinstall. It's probably worth noting that I had to adjust my time zone from pacific to eastern, but the time if in that zone would have been correct. I however, am from Philly. I'm all eyes and ears on this one...
Joel