I see what your trying to tell me. I did as you asked, used expand.exe and yes, the files were missing. I used expand like this "expand DRIVER.CAB -F:* C:\DRIVER" and it errors out during expanding. I'm really confused why if I have a corrput driver.cab, then how come all my installations w/o nLite went fine? from pre-sp1, to sp1 slipsreamed, to sp2 slipstreamed? Do i have to contact MS to let them know my copy of XP is bad to get a replacement? -Joe