Making No Sense.....DESPERATE need of help!

I'm getting errors from header files in the
C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\
directory

5508 of them, and they are all header files that I'm not using at all.

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\oaidl.h(446)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\commdlg.h(549)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\shellapi.h(83)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\lzexpand.h(109)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\winuser.h(6460)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\wingdi.h(3584)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\winbase.h(4875)

C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO\VC98\INCLUDE\oaidl.h(1294)

those header files over and over and over 5000 times.
what the hell is going on?

What module causes the error? I think comms.c includes windows.h which would indirectly include those files. And what is the error message?