>I have a suspicion that it might be related to one of
>the Hijack versions. Were you running Hijack?
>(Mark, jump in here and slap me if I'm wrong about it).

Consider yourself slapped silly!

Hijack does not have write access to the disk, never even thinks about calling a write() routine, and definitely does not attempt to write or modify config.ini or any other file or buffered item, so it cannot corrupt anything on it.

-ml