Thumbnails in explorer

I've researched this problem and have found plenty of solutions, but none seem to work. For some reason I can't add the registry key to my registry. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Basically, I'm trying to get the thumbnails to show up in my windows explorer. I don't use bridge, nor do I want to. It doesn't make my work process any faster. Essentially the solution has been to overwrite the aiicon.dll with a new file, which I've done. But there's also a registry key to add, but I get an error when I try to add that key. Error accessing the registry. ANyone run across this? I'm on XP in admin mode, and I can access the registry through regedit, so I'm thinking maybe there's an error in the key or something. Here's the registry file.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell\aiicon.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}\MiscStatus]
"IconBits"="16"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ai\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ai\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eps\ShellEx]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eps\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex\IconHandler]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.EPS\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\AIPage]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex\IconHandler]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Adobe.Illustrator.12\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\AIPage]
@="{0C5B0CED-206B-4c39-B615-0EB23C824612}"
Would love to have thumbnails again. Makes life so much easier. If anyone's had this issue and can help, you'd make me a happy guy.
Thanks.

You're right. Not what I wanted to hear. Such an annoying issue. Thing is, I have access to the registry, but adding this particular key is just not working. Not sure whether a repair would make much of a difference. And my experience with repair has always met with little to no improvement in the past and I don't even have a CD-rom on this computer any more. Got rid of it. Old technology IMO. Anyway, I'll keep looking around for a solution. I'd be happy to add them in manually, but that I don't really know how to do. If you have any advise on what needs to be added where, that would be appreciated. I've already backed up my registry and this to me is definitely worth the chance of making changes to the registry manually. Just not sure what to sadd and where. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it.

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