Deleted registry with AdAware 6.0 DOH!!

Okay, I have no icons that match what they are supposed to do.
You click on an .exe file, and it pulls up a box which says cannot
find program, please select from a list. So, I click on an .mp3 to
open Itunes..and then itunes opens, but it won?t open any other way.
exe files that I download to update stuff don?t run.

I used AdAware 6.0 to remove popups, etc and it said something
about /HKEY/***** information and deleted it all.

Ever since then, nothing runs and nothing associates with itself for
programs. I did a system restore back to before when I had this
problem, but it did not fix itself. I did system restore with command
prompt in safe moad and then
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe, and it went through all
the promts, however, when I rebooted, it loaded all bad and said it
couldn?t execute rstrui.exe in normal mode because there was no
program associated with it.

How do I get my icons to behave normally?!?!?!?!?

HELP! :(

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