Lets do the time warp again!

[AragornVA]

My boss handed me a laptop this morning and told me it was getting date/time and McAfee errors. Upon logging in i got a date/time is "invalid" message along with errors saying McAfee was referencing bad places in memory then crashing out.
Took a while to log in because it is an old Dell CpxJ. Checked the date and it displayed

January 2, 1601

Set the date back to normal and rebooted. Mcafee started working again. Installed 8 critical update from windowsupdate. Spybot, CWShredder, AdAware, HijackThis, rootkit detector, and full virus scan all showed nothing unusual.

Checked event viewer and this is what i saw:


Notice the dates!

Early in the summer I had built 6 of these laptops for a training program from the same image and all are having the same problem. I have yet to get my hands on another one to see if the event viewer starts freaking out after the same date. Will also check the BIOS time/date before changing anything on the next lappy.
Everything is working fine after fixing the date.
This has the boss and I completely stumped. Any ideas what might be causing it?

Edit: spelling