[andrewas]

Without more details on your computer im still confused as to what can be causing your problem. I doubt a hard-drive would fix it anyway. if SoA is working it rules out hardware/drive incompatabilities. a virus capable of causing this would hvae shown itself in other ways by now. im left with the un-official patches. Id guess that the Xp-Cap remover is to blame, get rid of it and you should(might) be fine.