Halogen

I assume you can read [and write] from your post, so what is preventing the descriptions in the program from getting into the sight of your eyes? And even if you couldn't read, you should still have enough sense to test the installation before fully implementing it.

If you're running AD can't you just set some restrictions to lock the list down

I don't understand where the actual problem is. nLite is a program used for reshaping the Windows installation CDs, it has no effect on an already set up Windows. Windows Media Center Edition is just Windows XP with some multimedia programs added to it.

What exactly do you mean you have autoactivate in winnt.sif? I know you can put the key in, but beyond that I don't know what you refer to. Also don't you need the oobe for calling as well?

Try using Server 2003, it's been known to do wonders (with gaming and everything). Just remove all the server stuff and turn on all the video hardware acceleration. There are also some conversion tools and tweaks floating around.

LOL....

I just tried Diskeeper 2007, and I must say they pretty much fixed all the problems I had with version 10. But I have another problem: after installing IE7 (or at least I think that's the cause) some services were deleted somehow. (Server and one called Redirector are the ones I know of). I think this is causing Diskeeper to fail when I do a manual defrag. It hangs and then spits back an error saying to check the event log. The automatic defrag is great so I just left that on.

I don't know if it's the same, but I've gotten "power surge" errors the same way, with certain devices. There should be an option given to you to reset it (again, if it's the same). Also, there are multiple Application Data folders. Make sure they aren't hidden.

Application Data

How about... nLite 2.0