Howdy all. This is my first attempt at making my own windows installation so it's no surprise that I've hit a hurdle but this is really ticking me off. After all the setup files have been copied and Setup kicks in, it immediatly comes up with a message saying: 'SXS.DLL: Syntax error in manifest or policy file "D:\I386\ASMS\10100\MSFT\WINDOWS\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.CA_" on line 0. Installation Failed: D:\I386\asms. Error Message: Manifest Parse Error: An invalid character was found in the text content.' After a bit of experementing I found out that it only happens when I integrate SP2 into the CD. I followed the Unntended Guide on MSFN and I used the nLite method AND the manual method. Also, I used CDIMAGE to make the ISO because the nLite ISOs never seemed to work. Any ideas?