explorer problem

I followed the link from your first post and did the 'fix'.
It must of helped because I restarted . I still got the 'Gstartup.lnk' shortcut message but I was able to access the internet. I didn't follow your second post yet,but thank you for your quick helpful response

Every time I try to reply here with the HJT results that I cut/paste,
When I hit 'reply' I get an 'unknown' error and explorer shuts down,
WhenI try to restart , I get a 'surftrust bone has caused an error' or a
'sysai' not responding, ???

here is the HJT

Ran the scan, my Mcafee kept interupting,finding the infected files as housecall did, I couldn't seem to post a log from housecall but one thing was obvious,I did a McA scan, all along I've seen the problem but ignored,both scans showed me the infected files, all located in
C:\_RESTORE\TEMP\A000***,most are 'potentially unwanted', but 2 of them:
Downloader-DS and Multidropper-GP.d are infected and with the rest of the Adware-gator,pop,showsearch, cannot be deleted or quarentined and are 'write protected'.
I'm embarrassed to say that I saw them in previous scans but thought I was helpless to remove. Can I assume that as long as they are there,they are dangerous? Is this a WinME 'fault'?

here is the hjt in safe, I don't know the McA vers,it is updated almost daily and I scan regularly.

Hello again,
I followed your last instruc,disabled system restore,ran adware,updated and ran spybot s&D,then ran my udated McAfee scan ( did not do housecall ), and finally came up clean .I then enabled system restore. I did not realize that these things hiding in '_RESTORE' were causing so much trouble. Am I out of trouble?

I REALLY appreciate you folks taking the time to walk me through this mess.
Thank you

Here is the latest HJT

HI,
I 'fixed' the files you instructed,but had problems with your second request.I rebooted in safe but could not find 'folder opt' in tools of IE, I did another adware,spybot and McA scan, all came up clean, here is the latest hjt .

I found the folder 'ref eggs view' , it contains
Boreremote,ikgoopfv,irrgekie,mail default,pile,surf trust bone & yxiaosuw, there is only a 'general' tab for each aplication with date and size

I ran HJT twice,checking the 'surf trust bone', but it's still there, would deleting the folder be wise ?

I followed your advice and rebooted in safe,then deleted the folder
'ref eggs view' that 'surf' was in. While looking into this from your last post, I noticed the date downloaded, 3/17/04, so this folder was fairly new, but I'm stumped, even doing a 'google' , I only came up with 1 hit,and that was a tech help site (not this), that showed a hjt with that same folder. Does anyone know what this is?
Anyhow, thanks for everything