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Thanks. I think at this point I will go down route 2) to speed things up a bit. Some of the other software seems to be broken too, so I will reinstall / repair install it one by one where necessary.
I guess restoring from system restore points is not a viable alternative, is it?
Also, I'm looking to avoid such a mess in the future- do you think this was just caused from an uncontrolled power off or some virus, or something else?
Will do the repair install tomorrow and report back how this went.