On Monday all hell broke loose with my computer. Many things went wrong and I tried many things to fix them. The biggest problem I had was that I couldn't even get to my desktop. I was stuck in a rebooting loop. I used the XP CD that came with my Compaq Presario 6024US to do a this repair. Well, now I can get on my desktop but I get a lot of popups when I get on and the internet doesn't work. It says Wireless Connection Unavailable. My System Restore also doesn't work. It won't even open. These are the popups btw:

C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\113917~1\ee\AOLSOF~1.EXE <In a command prompt like window

C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
Validation failed for C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe. You probably are missing a necessary root certificate.

waol.exe - Bad Image
The application or DLL C:\Program Files\America Online 9.0\APPDATA.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.

I'm guessing that the fastest way to fix everything is to just do a factory restore. If I do the factory restore I will have to backup lots of stuff but will the issues I'm having be backed up in the files as well? I'm not sure how it works. I just don't want to backup something that will harm the newly factory restored XP.
One last thing, last month I made my old hard drive into a slave drive and added another HD that had more space. Will doing a factory restore do anything to the slave drive?

Okay, hope all this made sense. Thanks again in advance for any helpful replies.