well, just checking out different forums and for my first visit, I have to say if this is it, I'm not impressed, couldnt see to much in the way of answers, just stupid childish comments, and, you guessed it,  I'm out of here. >>>>>

As for the thread starter, sounds like you installed xp over the top of ME, a clean install is the only way with xp to avoid the problems. I have installed XP 34 times now and have not had 1 major problem.