you know, I think I may have found the problem. After running a virusscan on the computer, I found a w32/msinit.worm.b virus. I couldn't find much info on it, other than it infected itself via network shares. After removing it, the problem went away on the one computer. I am going to run a scan on the others and see if I can get the problem to disappear completely.

thanks, -tim

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