DLL errors when playing media files

Hi. I'm a big media buff and have all the regular players on my system: Winamp, WMP9, RealOne and Quicktime. I play files a lot and was doing so yesterday, as usual. After a while, I switched Winamp off. I closed the computer and all was well.

The next time I switched it on, I played music and typed for a bit, then suddenly my computer went on a blue screen crash and restarted everything. That happens to me once in a while (I've had the comp for a year and a half and maybe it's happened 5 times), but normally after the automatic CheckDisk at reboot, all is well. Not so this time. CheckDisk found a ton of files crosslinked and it did whatever it does to fix them. Now, however, it seems that my DLL files are on the fritz. WMP now refuses to play my MPEG-2 files, spitting out audio with no video. Winamp3 refuses to load, mentioning missing DLL files. I reinstalled DDRAW.dll because it asked to, but now the error I get when I try to load ANYTHING on ANY media player is: "The procedure entry point MakeCriticalSectionGlobal could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" I tried replacing the kernel32.dll in the WINDOWS/system32 folder with a dll file I downloaded from dll-files.com, but even when I ok overwriting, the file returns to the original (probably corrupted) one. I've run the System File Checker to no avail and I can't use system restore because for some reason, there are NO available restore points aside from one made an hour ago. (That's another problem I'd like to resolve, and I'd appreciate anyone's input on the matter. I've checked and rechecked my system restore settings in the Control Panel after all, and it says it's monitoring C.).

Is there any way to fix this, please? I really need help here. Thank you!

 

Uh oh. Do your back ups NOW, ASAP. You may want to try to repair XP from the install cd. I would turn off that auto restart, too. If the dll files are corrupt, it's just as well Sys Restore is down. Burn everything that means anything to you onto cd, and we'll keep our fingers crossed. Maybe someone has a better idea, but I think you will eventually find yourself reinstalling XP.

Johanna