i read the link to the bart's pe forum, but is that going to help me? if i slipstream my i386 files, it won't ask for the cd anymore? also, i DID use the search function, but it apparently doesn't allow any strings with words which contain fewer than 3 characters, so i couldn't get any results for "nlite no winxp cd," which seemed to me to be the most likely thing to search for.