I fixed the problem
Some insidious little pinhead had dynamically installed a .dll extension and nested it amongst other windows application extensions on my computer. A quick search on a microsoft extension site showed it as bogus. When one considers that I blog from a company computer with a commercial firewall, Norton Anti Virus, Windows Pop Up Block and Stopzilla Pop Up Block it should give some indication how tenacious these little varmints are. Always be extremely careful while deleting application extension files. You could be deleting part of your operating system by error. If faced with this problem simply copy all of your application extension files and take them to an online windows files search program. When an individual file comes up as " unknown "..... you got a winner.