Thanks everyone for all your help. I've finally(after 5 weeks) got things working normally.
Yeah, it seems that Trend and Mal-Ware Bytes don't play nice together.
I'm keeping Mal-Ware Bytes running as my main anti-virus program, disabling it and running Trend once a week. Then I probably won't be renewing Trend this year.
I just hope that all the stuff I did during the past 5 weeks didn't screw things up...all the programs that I use daily are working fine...after about a month or so, I'll have used 90% of programs. If everything is still working, I should be good. Again, thanks everyone for your help!!!