First off, thank you all for your suggestions and help.
After the re-install didn't work this morning, I contacted my distributer. After talking with them, it came up that I don't use an admin account (I always forget this because I never use the admin account unless needed). Anyways, logging into the admin account (or right clicking the desktop icon and selecting "run as admin") worked. So they suggested that I do a profile rebuild. I was not too keen on this, so as a last ditch effort, I decided to try the "reset settings to default" option - and that worked!