narrator and jaws

Hi all -- I started a thread on this on the jawslite list but no one could 
solve the problem and the consensus was that I should wait till Wednesday 
and call FS. But I am hoping someone here could make a few more suggestions.

I am trying to get the display chain problem with jaws fixed, wich broke 
after I installed an update to windows live messenger. I have jaws8 on that 
machine, and never had a problem before.
I tried running the display chain manager on the tools menu of jaws but it 
failed saying it couldn't find something or other.
I the tried repairing jaws but that also failed.  Since I didn't have speech 
and my sighted family members weren't around, I tried running narrator as 
jaws was silent after I restarted from the repair. To run narrator I went to 
the run dialog on the start menu and type narrator and enter.  To my 
surprise, narrator didn't speak, but jaws came up with the same eloquence 
voices and rate as jaws and most but not all of the jaws commands worked.
I thought narrator was completely separate from jaws, so I ran narrator on 
my other laptop to see what it did. It came up with that slow draggy SAPI 
voice we are all familiar with, not jaws.

So what could be causing the problem and how can I fix it?
I really don't know if this scrambling of my system was the result of 
installing WLM or whether it is some kind of malware, but I'm hoping it is 
repairable without reinstalling windows.

Any pointers welcome! Thanx
--le


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