I ran chkdisk, disc clean up, tried restoration... (that didn't work, but I don't know if that had anything to do with this problem or not... I don't have Registry Mechanic set to 'auto backup', but in the past, it stole the job....)
I had a 'back up' file, probably on both partitions and that has some of the stuff in it that I can't delete... I have spent hours trying to delete everything that might be connected and when I get the warning that either I can't because some other program is using it or it might disable a program I need, I'm afraid to go ahead for fear that it really will mess up something I don't want to screw up!