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Page Fault in Unpaged Area BSOD Windows XP (I can boot into safe mode)

I'm getting the BSOD that says "PAGE_FAULT_IN_UNPAGED_AREA".   Seems like the last thing I did on my computer was run a spyware scan with Spybot...but could be totally unrelated.

I have read through a lot of the threads that already exist on EE, and most of them say "probably bad RAM".  I don't think this is my issue because 1. I can boot into safe mode, and 2. I have a stick from another machine that I tried and I still get the same message.

I also tried one person's suggestion to reduce the pagefile size to zero and Windows would rebuild it on reboot.  that didn't work either.  Any other suggestions for me?  I can boot into safe mode and the recovery console if that would help.
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one other thing I noticed.  I went into the sys config utility to disable all of the startup items, but no matter how often I do this and subsequently restart, one item stays checked.  The item is "dumprep 0 -k".
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Thanks for the input guys.  All are good suggestions.  I fixed the problem by slaving the drive and running a virus scan on it.  It found some pretty nasty stuff, and after I removed it and popped the drive back in to the problem computer, everything worked fine!  I should have tried this first, I guess, before even posting here, but I just didn't believe that it was virus related.  Thanks again for your suggestions!