Can not Access Sharepoint Central Administrator after Microsoft Updates

After some Microsoft updates a few weeks ago, I can no longer access my SharePoint Central Administrator.  Below is the error I get:

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on the local server machine, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "RemoteOnly". To enable the details to be viewable on remote machines, please set "mode" to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

I also checked my event logs and I get some reoccurring errors:

Event Type:      Warning
Event Source:      ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category:      Web Event
Event ID:      1310
Date:            9/17/2007
Time:            2:58:58 PM
User:            N/A
Computer:      FCHRINTRA2
Description:
Event code: 3006  Event message: A parser error has occurred.  Event time: 9/17/2007 2:58:58 PM  Event time (UTC): 9/17/2007 6:58:58 PM  Event ID: 56a262ee7b424087a4c8776fa8c71eef  Event sequence: 1  Event occurrence: 1  Event detail code: 0    Application information:      Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/595471311/Root-4-128345291385788690      Trust level: WSS_Minimal      Application Virtual Path: /      Application Path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\28185\      Machine name: FCHRINTRA2    Process information:      Process ID: 488      Process name: w3wp.exe      Account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE    Exception information:      Exception type: HttpException      Exception message: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.    Request information:      Request URL: http://localhost:28185/_controltemplates      Request path: /_controltemplates      User host address: 127.0.0.1      User:       Is authenticated: False      Authentication Type:       Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE    Thread information:      Thread ID: 7      Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE      Is impersonating: False      Stack trace:    at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ReportTopLevelCompilationException()
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled()
   at System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters)
    Custom event details:

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

And


Event Type:      Error
Event Source:      Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search
Event Category:      Gatherer
Event ID:      2424
Date:            9/14/2007
Time:            9:56:54 AM
User:            N/A
Computer:      FCHRINTRA2
Description:
The update cannot be started because the content sources cannot be accessed. Fix the errors and try the update again.

Context: Application 'Search', Catalog 'index file on the search server Search'

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


I tried almost everthing out there that I could find to fix this problem.  Does anyone know what could be going on?