I also performed a windows system restore but as I suspected, that did nothing to solve the issue.
Have to leave the house for now, but hopefully someone can post something to help for when I get back.
To Sum Up: Used CCleaner and cleaned the Registry as well. Now the sound on my pc is totally distorted.
Did a restore by using the Merge option on the cc backup, did a windows system restore. Checked the sound settings on the pc.
Checked the Device Manager for problems.
None of the above have solved anything.
Windows XP Professional 64 bit. 4 gigs of RAM. 2.83 GHz