Problem with NIS 2010 - Windows XP, SP3 - 17.5 update - Urgent

Hi:

 

Received the NIS 2010 17.5 update late yesterday, via LiveUpdate. I was prompted to reboot and did so normally and logged in again with normal function, as I could tell.

 

This morning, I started up my system in question, XP SP3 and the NIS icon would not load into the System Tray.

 

I then clicked on the program shortcut to invoke the NIS UI, without anything happening. Went to reboot and noticed that ccSvcHst.exe process was hanging, so I had to terminate it via End Task.

 

Rebooted 3 additional times without any result - same situation as above.

 

The ccSvcHst.exe Process is listed in the Task Manager twice.

 

What is going on? I am basically non-functional. :smileysad: