With the help of the forum members there we are working on getting the issues of firewalls and antivirus programs resolved, including having the Windows Firewall stay on, upon startup.

Dale, I told you want needed to be done. You should have had someone take a look at what was completely or partially removed, what was installed, and when, as well as the state of the system when you ran System Restore multiple times. It would not surprise me if a nuke and pave is advised at this point.