NIS 2010 - hanging on start up, blocking firefox, IE

So not sure what the latest update of NIS 2010 is... but I updated it on May 29th and got a whole bunch of problems.

My specs:

 

Windows 7

Corei7 950 @ 3ghz

 

 

1st Problem:

After applying the update and restarting, the NIS would hang.

Initially this did not block anything as I could still open Firefox and IE to log onto Symantec's Website for a quick look on the forums. I then re-installed NIS and this seemed to fix the issue.

 

2nd problem:

A few hours later, (After i had turned off the PC), I turned on the PC again to do some web surfing. Firefox and IE would not start.  I tried to restart the PC again from this point to see if it was just a fluke. To my surprise, the PC hung while logging into Windows - I get a black screen with the mouse pointer movable, but nothing else - pure black screen.

 

So at this point I have NIS Uinstalled - what do I do now?