I'm afraid this all sound like an install that went haywire...
When you un-installed, did you delete the game directory by hand afterward? - that could work. For the Esc key to work you should have the following section in your conf.ini file in the main game directory:
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[HotKey gui]
Escape=activate
If it's not there you can add it using notepad. Make sure notepad doesn't add the default .txt extention when you save it. note conf.ini is CaSeSensitive...
If you have an old and slow CPU your system can have problems recognising the Esc command in time too In that case run il2setup.exe and disable the movie to play on startup.