I have exactly the same problem, hijacking my home page to esafe, and cant quite see from the thread what exactly you did to fix it. my problem has now progressed. I have a dial up connection, and now when i click on the internet explorer on my desk top, the esafe web page appears, but I can not dial up to the internet. i am ring my service provider for help with the dialing tonight, but need to get rid of the hijacked home page.
I have purchased the paretologic spyware today, but am unable to access the internet to run it yet.