Windows loads temp user profile on every two reboots

hello. for some reason, since about two weeks ago, every two times I power my laptop on, windows fails to load the my user profile and greets me with the temp user profile where I can't access my files and such. however, if I reboot after that it loads my user profile sucessfully. but if I reboot again It loads the temp profile. I scanned unsing My antivirus, and it turned up no bad results. I then tried a disk check, but it only was on for less then 5 seconds when it just said "the disk is clean." i'm not sure what to do now. any suggestions? it's really irritataing having to constantly reboot every time i turn my laptop on.
thanks.

Brink said:

Hello Tailsy,

Have you recently renamed your user profile folder, or move your user profile to another location?

In the mean time, you might see if the tutorial below may be able to help with this error. Be sure to read all of it for all available options.

User Profile Error - Logged on with a Temporary Profile - Vista Forums

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

no. i haven't moved it anywhere. i'll try the tutorial and see if i get anywhere.

I found the registry entry, but it didn't end in .bak. I installed the latest round of windows updates and that didn't solve anything either.