my computer comes up with....windows cannot load the locally stored profile. possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. if this problem persists, contact your network administartor and then comes up with....detail- an I/O operation initated by the registry failed unrecoverably. the registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the systems image of the registry and then comes up with windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a tempoaray profile. changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.1 person needs an answerI do too

Follow this procedure. It should fix you up:"How to recover the damaged user profile in Windows XP" < http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555473 >HTH, JW