I'm curious now: which parts failed? It seems unlikely that a process launched with elevated privileges would be launching other processes with less privileges accidentally.

I hate to ask the stupid question, but are you sure the reboot isn't what really fixed it?

+1 I love this idea. I don't know how much help I could be on creating it, though, since I have no experience with C#. I have access to Visual Studio, though, and if you have some grunt work that you need help with (perhaps some of that repetitive coding), email me and I'll see what I can do. I would love to see this come to fruition.