Sanal: You seem to have found the solution to this annoying issue; At last!
I redownloaded my "msvcr71.dll from the microsoft.com official web and installed into my win7 Ultimate 32 sys; That didn't help.

What is the "msvcr71.dll.it6?..."it6" ??...

Maybe I'm naive I wouldn't have thought that a file directly downloaded form the MS Official site would be BAD as you say here? Maybe I have a lot to learn about computers and the net...Yet!?

Would you advice to download from "DLL-Files.com" would do the trick?

I apologize for sounding so uncertain?

Much appreciate you efforts:
Bernardo