Unreadable Text In Windows XP Home Edition

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This problem is kind of hard to explain. I'll do my best to keep it short. I
ran cleanup on my system the other day and since then I haven't been able to
read the text on my computer. It's in some strange language that is very
unreadable. For example the Start Button looks something like this ( ? ^ v x
^ ) I don't know how I got into this mess or how to get out of it because
everthing is unreadable. The only time I can read the text is when I'm on web
pages. I went by memory and uninstalled the video card driver but that did
not work. I tried restore but while I was in the process of running clean up,
I deleated all but the most recent restore point. And the most recent restore
point comes up unsuccessful everytime I try. Thanks for reading this and I
hope somebody out there can help.