In an appalling display of disrespect for honest customers, game publishers have been using a version of SecuROM which intentionally creates and maintains files with corrupt names in the user profile.
These files can not be deleted by any means available to a regular Windows user. Worse, a profile infected with these files can not be copied or deleted by any means available to a regular Windows administrator. ScanDisk does not seem to notice the problem.
So how do I get rid of these files??