ODBC TNS Service drop down filled with garbage records.

We have Oracle installed on our network. I am trying to install the Oracle ODBC drivers onto my Windows XP machine to create a connection to use in Crystal Reports XI.
I do not have any oracle products installed on my machine so I downloaded the basic client and the client odbc zip files and installed them into a local directory and then ran the install odbc exe and added the windows PATH which installed the odbc source. When I add a new Windows ODBC Data Source on the configuration screen the list of TNS Service names is filled with dozens of garbage records. I would guess this is not correct so how do I resolve this? I assume this is suppose to be a list of connections to oracle databases read from a tnsnames.ora file but I could be wrong. I find no tnsnames.ora file on my computer but I assume there is this file in the oracle directories on the server somewhere. I am not sure where to go from here. Can anyone advise on how to get the connections I need and clean up the garbage? Thanks.
Rick

Hi,
I am having the same issue, did you ever resolve this issue ?
I do have a reg setting and enviroment variable for this setting that both point to the same place and I can actually use odbc to create connections but when I use the drop down list I just get garbage.
Simular setup to your , xp sp3 , instant client , odbc client , sql client.
I also have an nls_lang as well as adding the path of the isntall to the path var.

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