VSS causes ntbackup and backup exec to fail

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I am running a two server, single domain network with each server running WS3
SP1. My mail server is running exchange 2003 sp2 and backup exec 10d.
Backup Exec runs and backs up data but fails with this error:

Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xe0008527 - VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows (VSFW)
unexpectedly failed. Check that the VSFW service is running, and check the
status of existing disk groups and volumes.
Final error category: System Errors

For additional information regarding this error refer to link
V-79-57344-34087. This article and reference articles led to a dead end as I
do not have veritas storage foundation for windows. I soon discovered the
issue just with backup exec as I can not run a backup using ntbackup. So I
found some other articles one that looked promising was to registered several
DLLs and services as listed here:
1. Click Start > Run, type CMD
2. In the Command Prompt, type following commands in sequence
Cd %systemroot%\system32
Net stop vss
Net stop swprv
regsvr32 ole32.dll
regsvr32 vss_ps.dll
Vssvc /Register
regsvr32 /i swprv.dll
regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll
regsvr32 es.dll
regsvr32 stdprov.dll
regsvr32 vssui.dll
regsvr32 msxml.dll
regsvr32 msxml3.dll
regsvr32 msxml4.dll

Even after several reboots, the problem was not resolved. THe VSS service
is running so I dont have any issues there. Here are my results from
VSSADMIN:
C:\>vssadmin list providers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.

Provider name: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Provider type: System
Provider Id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
Version: 1.0.0.7

Provider name: 'Acronis VSS HW Provider'
Provider type: Hardware
Provider Id: {f5dbcc43-b847-494e-8083-f030501da611}
Version: 1.0


C:\>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001 Microsoft Corp.


C:\>

Any assistance or guidance on this issue is greatly appreciated.
 
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