Well if this gives an idea as to how royally fucked the system is when I try to accress the task manager my computer tells me that it's been disabled by the system administrator. As I said before when I try to download new scanners or update my current one the system tells me the download must be aborted or Windows will shut itself down. Finally Spybot S&D pops up asking for the system password to access the scanner. Whatever is in the system stops my every attempt to get rid of it (hence the reason why I want to do a full wipe)

In other words how is running a system restore off the CD going to help me?