i just signed up to post that regional settings thingy too =o i had bosnian as the setting for the standard and formats, and bosnian as the language for non-unicode programs nlite would hang after you select the folder with the xp files, and process explorer was showing that the mscoree.dll file was the trouble maker i googled it and it turned out to be part of .net 2.0, and since 1.1 had the same issue with the bosnian langage (the installation wouldn't complete) i too figured it had to be the same solution - change your regional settings to US for example just finished nlite-ning my sp3 copy with sata drivers for a friends laptop thanks to nuhi for this piece of art and greetings from bosnia =)