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Stumped in the Cul De Sac Mystery Cache

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Big Papi Smurf: going to disable and remove this cache

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Hidden : 12/28/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

We live in the land of Windows and I'm sure many of you have seen the error messages below at some point. The coordinates above will not lead you to the cache. They are for somewhere close by.

Please note this is a neighborhood cache, please be mindful of the neighbors that live around the cache and only come between the hours of 8am and 7pm.


Cache can be found by solving the following clue:

N [Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for safe removal but it has not been removed from the computer]'[ERROR_BAD_NETPATH: The network path was not found].[ERROR_UNDEFINED_CHARACTER The Unicode character is not defined in the Unicode character set installed on the system]


W[ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER The data area passed to a system call is too small] [ERROR_BAD_FORMAT 11 0xb An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format].[connections from your host are denied]



Congrats to towtrkdug for FTF on 01/03/2012

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1) Gur Pyhr pna or sbhaq va gur Gvgyr. 2) Gur pnpur vf abg jvguva 5 srrg bs gur znvyobkrf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)