I suppose my question is... are we probably dealing with residual viruses/trojans/etc? Is this a side effect of the fixes we went through? Is this something entirely other?
My answer....you want an honest answer...I haven't a clue! I know that doesn't help...there WERE so many nasty things on the computer I suppose it is possible that one of them decided to eat the drivers, I really don't feel the removals would have removed the drivers. I don't feel either that the registry fixes would have done so either. But at this point I am having a hard time remembering we are working on an air conditioning unit too!