JJ,
You are 100 percent correct, win 2k is nothing like the other ver's on restoring the registry, I don't have win 2k, maybe someone with that experience will post some help, meanwhile , if you haven't already read this, it may help some:
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Backing Up and Securing the Registry
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Mastering the Recovery Console

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edit, and restore the registry in Windows 2000?

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