"Unable to Find Dependency"

I'm running VS 2002 with .net 1.1 on Windows XP Mediacenter Edition

Since I installed VS2002 (last week), I've been getting "unable to find
dependency" warning errors and erratic behvior from my debugger. (The
debugger works some times, but usually not at all)

I have looked at every reference google can find to "unable to find
dependency" (web and groups) and have not yet found a solution. I've
tried to include a reasonable narrative of steps I've taken.

I'm stumped.

I've checked all the ".Config" files and verified that "runtime" is set
to 1.1.4322 (for Visual Studio and all related tools, and MS Office -
this is an add-in project)

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Error during build:

------ Starting pre-build validation for project 'mycodeSetup' ------
WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'mscorlib'
(Signature='B77A5C561934E089' Version='1.0.3300.0') of assembly
'Extensibility.dll'
WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'mscorlib'
(Signature='B77A5C561934E089' Version='1.0.3300.0') of assembly
'stdole.dll

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I assumed my debugger problems are related to the missing dependency.
So I checked all my references. I looked at MSCorlib in the References
list for my VS Project and discovered that the version my reference
calls for is 1.0.5000.0 The text from VStudio reference tab for
mscorlib is below:
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Visual Studio 2002

 (Name)                                                     mscorlib
  Copy Local                                                 False
  Culture

  Description                                                Common
Language Runtime Library
  Identity                                                   mscorlib
  Path
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\mscorlib.dll
  Strong Name
                                                             True
  Type                                                       Assembly
  Version
1.0.5000.0

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However, the file in the framework directory is version  1.1.4322.2032.
So it appears to be a disconnect. Below is the info on the file in the
1.1 framework directory:

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File in directory C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\

Name  5                                          Size  Type
       Date Modified           Product Version

mscorlib.dll                             2,088 KB   Application
Extension   7/15/2004 2:29 PM       1.1.4322.2032
mscorlib.ldo                                11 KB   LDO File
    7/15/2004 12:14 AM
mscorlib.tlb                               460 KB   TLB File
    7/14/2004 11:45 PM      1.1.4322.2032

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In VStudio, I removed the reference, then re-added them. This did not
change anything.

Now I'm suspicious that a pointer (perhaps in the registry?) is set up
wrong.

So I started searching the registry for any reference to mscorlib and
found things like this:
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Name                               Type                    Data
   (Default)                       REG_SZ                  mscoree.dll

   Assembly                        REG_SZ                  mscorlib,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
   Class                           REG_SZ
System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA1
   RuntimeVersion                  REG_SZ                  v1.1.4322
   ThreadingModel                  REG_SZ                  Both
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There are a ton of these types of entries in the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\...
The line starting with "ASSEMBLY" points out something but is it
strange? I don't know.
It appears that every tim mscorlib is referred to as an assembly,
version 1.0.5000.0 is the target.

I'm thinking I want to change this to 1.1.4322.2032 but that is some
serious registry work. and the the risk of damage seem quit likely and
quite severe...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark Durrenberger