3047,53 --- Big time crash

 

I'm running NIS 2010  (got it cheap).  I installed on March 5, 2012.    It was running perfect until mid April.    Then I got the infamous 3047,53 error. 

 

My Norton account allowed me to upgrade to resolve the issue.  The download was installed and it knocked out IE 8.   I could not get back into the internet!!

 

I booted my XP SP3, using a recover point.    However Norton was then gone.  No longer on my PC.

 

I reinstalled NIS 2010 --- However it didn't take and flashed a upgrade screen.  

 

Since I couldn't get NIS up on my PC, I re-installed the XP operating system from scratch.  All software was installed nicely except NIS.  --- When I installed NIS it clobbered IE 8

 

Anybody else experience this???  Any suggestions.  As a stop gap measure I'm using a competitor Internet Suite, but would prefer to use Norton product.