Well I fiddled with this problem most of the afternoon.
I looked at one of the sites that Tim suggested, but that was a disaster as it really effected the whole computer,

i had to do a system restore and then a complete scan, which did bring the machine back to where it was when all this happened.

However it did not fix the issue of the error message and it still persists every time i open Seamonky.

At a lose to know what I should do to get rid of this pesky issue
Leon