Holy cow! Whata community!
It'd take a week to get these kinds of answers at any other board.
Thanks a ton for the info guys. marioh, if you could post that little reg file script here that'd be great, might help some other folks out too. When I searched for runservice in the registry it only found two entries I believe, and since both were under some e-license key I thought I better not touch it, at risk of wrecking something.