Vista just updated and now we have a black wallpaper - Satellite P300

Windows Vista updated last night on our P300 laptop and now acts rather weird.
We get only a solid black wallpaper and a lot of the icons we had are no longer there, and it wont change the wallpaper. Most programs arent loading at startup like normal (only the anti virus) and most things are missing from the start menu... has this happened to anyone before? It almost sounds like what they do when you have a pirate copy of Vista (and of course this one IS legit as it came with the lappy)...
Any suggestings?
I havent physically got to see the laptop and wont be able to til tomorrow myself... Though knowing my mate its probably only something simple but thought there check around before I get there incase.
Thankyou :)

Solved the problem..
A windows update some how damaged the register.
I hit log off in windows, then tried to click the user name to log in (we have it set to just auto log in) and while trying to load the profile, we got a The User Profile Service service failed the logon.
A system restore fixed the issue... :)

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