Please help me I think I am going crazy.

The problem started with recurring hard boot after I navigate around
googlearth. It
freezes the computer after about 4 or 5 operations.  Example I load an
address,
zoom into the maximum magnification, and move the focus to a little bit
south.   After a couple of tries I was presented with "Active Desktop
Recovery". I clicked  on the "Restore my Active Desktop" and received the
following error message, titled: "Internet Explorer Script Error." I click
cancel and that didn't work so I clicked retry.  Sorry I am not sure of the
what happened next but I loaded IE. I tried rebooting.

Ever since I get a working copy of IE as part of my wallpaper, covering the
exact area as the "Active Desktop" message. I use a wallpaper changer and
whenever the wallpaper changes the IE reloads. I have tried to turn off the
wallpaper changer and even uninstalled it and load a standard wallpaper but
it still happens.

What could have caused the hard reboot??

How could internet explorer become embedded in the wall paper

My setup is as follows:

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Operating System         
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)         

Processor

2.67 gigahertz Intel Pentium D
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Board: Intel Corporation D101GGC AAD35788-305
Serial Number: BTGC60802XZH
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award BIOS for Intel GC11010N.86A.0303.2005.1108.2057 11/08/2005

Drives         
346.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
125.17 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H42L [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
EPSON Stylus Storage USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
Maxtor 2R015H1 [Hard drive] (15.00 GB) -- drive 1, s/n R1A5MCRC, rev
EAH41MF0, SMART Status: Healthy
Maxtor 6L250R0 [Hard drive] (251.00 GB) -- drive 2, s/n L59LK4YG, rev
BAH41G10, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 [Hard drive] (80.02 GB) -- drive 0         

2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB

Local Drive Volumes
   
c: (on drive 1)     15.00 GB     4.26 GB free
d: (on drive 2)     125.83 GB     33.44 GB free
e: (on drive 2)     122.02 GB     40.00 GB free
f: (on drive 0)     80.02 GB     47.28 GB free
g: (on drive 2)     3.14 GB     187 MB free

Printers
        
EPSON Stylus CX8400 Series     on USB001
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver

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