HP pavilion preloaded spyware is sticky...

I am sick to death of this P.O.S. HP pavillion DV8310. For a month I have been trying to deal with the trial-ware it comes with and the 135 trusted modules grabbing internet access....WTF does my keyboard driver need internet access for?
I notice the trial version of Norton I-net suite disallows me to remove the trusted pre-installed programs from HP! Essentials like MS-Explorer and System...can be removed but not Scvhost called from elsewhere. It appears to me that Norton has been engaged in hiding my user data export to HP and points unknown.

SO I tried:
MSconfig and removing all the startup files. RESULT- can't play a DVD but still get phonehomes.
Services.msc and removed as many sneaky non-esential services as i could by trial and error. Even then there appear to be LSPs acting at the kernal level that don;t even trigger Spybot teatimer that the registry has been altered to reload the 'original confiruration' and allow datamining.....although it is more restricted in what can call home to HP modules.
REmoving all registry entries ans software that are not critical for usability but restrict phonehome...RESULTS..dismal! I am in over my head.
I purchased ZA 2007 int-suite and it is better but Norton is very very sticky and conflicts at times by leaving hidden modules that the HP config ini restores on me.

Did I say I am in over my head????? I am learning a lot about the efforst HP and MS are going to to get my data for free and sureptitiously but not making much headway in the blocking and retaining usability fight. For EG: if I deny access to the "quicklaunch" features i may be saving my privacy but can't play a rented DVD and listen to it.

Win Media player10 is blocked from working if Sonic is active.

It started two years ago with a 7150 printer driver that was integrated with phonehome 'no opt out' code. Tech supt finally conceded it was so entrained it would not work without the phonehome module and offred my money back saying "future printers would not have drivers integrated with connectivity modules.....two years later and is far worse. Great efforts have been made to make it harder to detect and remove.

There is a hidden HP directory with ini files that on inspection read like " start c:\HP\bin\cloaker.exe c:customize PC ALL yadyada .bat and so on.
I assume "cloaker.exe means "don;t expose the actions" no?

Given that HP spys on its own directors have I a hope in making a machine i can connect to the internet and not broadcast the state of every piece of software and every media file I ever connected remotely to?

Most firewalls and spyware utilities assume everything already loaded is legit....and if teatimer is foiled this is happening at at lower level than I can deal with directly right?

Miffed!
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