Solved: Need Help w/ xp start-up

[zarf]

I installed Yahoo Online Protection and it wanted me to uninstall norton so i did and upon restart everything freezes including cntl/alt/delete the arrow turns into a hour glass once it hits the task bar and nothing works, i've tried safe mode and it will run but i can't get any futher then that, i have also tried to reinstall windows xp sp2 but it will only make it to the i386 files and asks for disk can not open?
can any one get me past this

 

[Old Rich]

Can you get to Add/Remove Programs in Safe Mode? . . if so . . remove the Yahoo nonsense . . If not can you run msconfig? . . disable Yahoo and everything Norton to see if you can boot normally.

 

[zarf]

removed yahoo and started again