I didn't get in on any of your other problems, but it is not unusual to have
multiple instances of explorer.exe or iexplorer to run. Explorer.exe
represents the "shell" and iexplorer.exe the browser. Having these
processes running is not a problem in and of itself.
Refernces that might context things for you a little: (I have no idea what
your other problems with it have been):
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