Thanks to your quick translation, howard, I was able to track the problem to the following Microsoft update:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-055 - Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925486)
Removing the update corrected the issue. Thank you for your assistance, sir.
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