Illegal operation attempted on a registry key that has been marked for deletion

[kinook]

We'd like to know why it fails/hangs at all. The error messages indicate strange problems in the COM (Component Object Model) layer, where CoCreateInstance for any component starts failing with bizarre errors.

We've built the build.bld project on Win2003, Win2008, and Win7 virtual machines for days on end, and have not been able to reproduce any hangs or errors.

So you were able to reproduce a failure with the build.bld we attached earlier? How long did the project run before it hung? At least there other machines where the problem doesn't occur?