I would like to know exactly what the instructions above do. If they tell WSC not to notify me of a problem I will not do that. Please advise as to the EXACT verbiage of what they do.
In simple English, what the procedure suggested does is to cause the repository to rebuild itself. Following the reboot the WSC will work as before, but correctly. (By deleting the repository or renaming it, it will be rebuilt by the OS upon restart. It is necessary to stop the services mentioned so that the file can be renamed or deleted. The services should automatically restart on reboot.Check they are set to "automatic" which is the default. If you use the alternative method listed - renaming it to "old", that "old" file can later be deleted, if you want to keep things pristine.)
In my first post you will see that I am running Vista Home Basic(yeah me!). May want to adjust canned speeches so everyone feels like you are speakinh directly to them.
If a problem is frequently encountered - and this one is, believe me - a fair few of the forum helpers are likely to have texts that can be quickly inserted into the reply, that will solve the problem.
The other advantage of using such a text, that covers more than one operating system, especially if the OS is not referred to by name in the thread title, is that others looking for help with similar issues can find it without necessarily having to look through dozens of threads.