you got a tough cleanup problem Malandro; infection possibly from Gator or Adware [n.b. Adware Not Adaware; Adaware is friendly]. Firstly, don't delete where you can uninstall, this why 'unsafe' messages appear. did you get your adware from kazaa or where? You on XP? create a System Restore Point b4 you try to fix; or back up your registry to My Documents. if on W98, you can create a restore point from Registry Checker in System Information/ Tools but it is done daily automatically. To restore from W98 you restart into real Dos and type scanreg /restore - hopefully you won't need to do any restores though. After you uninstall your rogue programs do a search/find for.. oh here's another sneaky;
Winstart001.exe this is not a system anything it is an adbot nasty. clipgenie? also a nasty. info here about that and others;
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/robotarmy/P2P/grokst
er.htm
find and delete .
Your temporary internet files; safe to delete them all everything except index.dat, which you clear with Sweeper by emery [freeware]. blah, blah, loads more.. get Winpatrol [freeware] here;
http://www.winpatrol.com/stats.html
good luck with your task :-) the mind boggles at their dirty trix.