ndis.exe - Bad Image

I have a XP Pro laptop (gateway) that works fine on a wired/wireless network.
It gets the following error msg. upon bootup:
ndis.exe -bad image: The application or DLL
C:\doc& sett...\admin..\locals..\temp\*.tmp (4 dif. files referenced) is not
a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.

"There is no installation diskette and the cd containing OS is not to be
found. I have cleaned these files out, disabled the 1394 network connection
(as per a KB article)but to no avail. the laptop works fine but I'd like to
remove the 4 popup error messages. If it's the current profile, how should I
fix it?

Thanks :-)