Help! Automatic Updates won't work!

Hello :-)

Earlier this evening, when I went to switch from viewing one tab in my
browser (Opera 8.0) to another, a perfectly normral activity, Opera quit
responding and wouldn't even respond to the task manager tryinh to close it
down. So I did the only thing left to do. I forced my WinXP laptop to shut
down by holding the power button until the screen went blank then restarted.
Upon that restart and even after two other restarts, I get the error message
"Automatic updates. This program has enountered a problem and needs to
close" and regardless of whether I select "send" or "don't send," once that
window is gone, it's not even 10 seconds before the error message appears
again. What might be the problem and how do I fix it? If it helps, here's
the two files that were sent with one of the "reports."

http://www.cloudchasershaconage.furt.../appcompat.txt
http://www.cloudchasershaconage.furt...auclt.exe.mdmp

Thanx in advance :-)