That make me hate Microsoft so bad

The worst part is that a catastrophic failure doesn't even crash the app. For those of you who are curious to know, I got this while attempting to change my Source Control preferences in a VS.NET 2003 project. If you experience awkward errors, such as the one above, or ones that simply say "Unspecified error" while trying to perform source control operations in Visual Studio .NET, here's how to fix it.