At this point I believe it to be some conflict with another application or process, but I do not have the time right now to wipe my entire system just to get maya working. So I am basically back to not being able to use maya again.

I guess I could try doing a msdiag boot with all the services not essentialto maya stopped and see what happens. But to be honest I am sick to ****ing death of this problem. No other graphics app I use has any issues. I am just sick of dealing with it.