After finding out about XPCREATE and this whole community and being thankful for all the brain hours put into making everything easy, I thought I will try to help, in my own limited way, of course. So something trivial I was having problems with was getting all the right patches and hotfixes and sp packs for the right operating system. So i stumbled upon this Hope it helps. Please let me know if it is any help at all. Thanks. http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog/en/default.asp