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"Bonjour" and Winsock 2 and Internet connection

"Bonjour" (which is installed without permission - it is a Mac product but can be installed on XP) was unsuccessfully installed on my computer.  When I run a Windows Registry cleaner (Registry First Aid), it detects several Registry entries related to "bonjour" as follows:

Registry First Aid 3.4.0 build 541   *** www.RoseCitySoftware.com/Reg1Aid/index2.html ***
Found invalid entries
Created: 6/4/2006 11:39:16 PM

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 *** Invalid Paths ***  Total found entries: 8

0     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Eventlog\Application\Bonjour Service"
Value ""EventMessageFile"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""

1     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries\000000000004"
Value ""LibraryPath"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""

2     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\Eventlog\Application\Bonjour Service"
Value ""EventMessageFile"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""

3     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries\000000000004"
Value ""LibraryPath"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""

4     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\Eventlog\Application\Bonjour Service"
Value ""EventMessageFile"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""

5     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries\000000000004"
Value ""LibraryPath"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""

6     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\Bonjour Service"
Value ""EventMessageFile"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe""

7     Key: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE] \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries\000000000004"
Value ""LibraryPath"" has invalid file reference: ""C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""
Correction: "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [0] "Leave the entry without change"
Correction: [1] "Delete the entry (no found corrections)"
Correction: [2] "Cut invalid substring "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll""


If I go ahead & delete these entries, I am then unable to (1) access the internet and (2) unable to reboot back into Windows XP.  In that case, I need to reboot in Safe Mode & execute the RFA backup file to restore the Registry entries which were deleted.  Then all is OK.  

I could just tell RFA to ignore these Registry "errors" but their presence "disturbs" me.  Can anyone shed any light on this & tell me how I can clean up this mess (like, why is this happening)?  Thanks.
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One other thing:  when I could not get back into Windows, I remember seeing a message which said that Winsock 2 was missing!!!
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I reinstalled & then used ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS.  It worked!  Thanks.
Perfect. Thnx for the points.

Cheers,
Rajesh