From Mike Hogan,@nmt.edu Mon Nov 7 17:18:32 2005
Too frequently, for whatever reason, a temp file is created in some MS Windows directory that has characters MS Windows is not able to handle. You can fix the resulting "profile loading" problem by deleting that file in a Linux session. Simply copy down the name and location of the file from the MS Windows error message, then log in to Linux and open a terminal (by right clicking the desktop and click "Open Terminal").
In the terminal type (being sure to convert MS Windows' back-slashes for Linux forward slashes, and using (in Linux) "\ " wherever MS Windows used " ") :
rm .windowsxp-profile/<type in the path and name of the bad file>
then press <Enter> and you should be able to log on to MS Windows without the "loading profile" error message.
For example. The problem file is reported by the MS Windows error
message to be \favorites\Little Big Man.doc. In
Linux you'd want to type the command
rm .windowsxp-profile/favorites/Little\ Big\ Man.doc