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Actually, these files are active x controls. They are used in development of applications. For example...oscsock.ocx is the oscsock active x control. A visual basic programmer would use that control to write an application to connect to the AIM network. When he distributed the application he would need to supply the user with that file in order for it to run. The only reason you would get a missing file for it was if you were using an AIM client written in VB and the developer did not include the active x controls with it. It is much like dll-hell.
About the Explorer error, I am not sure that this is entirely possible. To my knowledge, no explorer dll could be over written while explorer is running. Another thing that puzzles me is why there was a dll file in there. I downloaded a similar (maybe same package, to use in VB) that did not include any DLL file.
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