I went over to Knappers house to fix his computer. He was installing a Kodak photo program and got the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on every reboot. After booting from the Windows XP install disk, we copied the DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, and SYSTEM files from c:\windows\repair to c:\windows\system32\config. The repair directory contains these 5 files from the time Windows was installed (i.e., unmodified versions). We were then able to boot normally into Windows without getting the BSOD. From here, we chose a Restore Point found at c:\System Volume Information\_restore{*}\RP%\snapshot (* is some large hex string and % is the latest restore that Windows is known to have booted fine) and copied the _REGISTRY_MACHINE_ files and _REGESTRY_USER_.DEFAULT file to c:\windows\system32\config (renaming them appropriatly to DEFAULT, SAM, etc.
BAM, rebooted perfectly.
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