For clarity.....a technician frined of mine tried a couple of his codes earlier, not any warez stuff going on here! I guess he wasn't aware of the blacklist thing in SP2 like I was. The copy of XP I have cam with my laptop provided by my job and the cd as well. Let's no go all 'x-files' here with the conspiracy stuff! Thanks for the help! Oh yea, the PM is only because I'm new at using sites like this, not trying to be hush-hush about anything...