nope... ive messed it up somewhere... cant really think of what it should be,.... what if i extract those 3 files, from my original danish windows XP CD ? im guessing no... cuase the slipstreamed SP 1 would not have altered these files, to include the new files, added by SP1... right ? so i have to delete my /i386/ folder, and rerip my original CD, slipstream it, then add in my winnt.sif, dosnet.inf, txtsetup.??? and svcpack.inf... and all my hotfixes into /i386/update/ etc... right ? just bowsed through my c:\XPCD\I386\... there is no "syssetup.inf", but there is a "syssetup.in_"... ?