Mini-Setup is freezing at the Light Blue "Please wait while Window

[brianfgonzalez]

I ran a very basic sysprep on a stuffed image with MaCafee, at least 10 custom applications, MaCafee Solidifier (in "update mode"), Windows Steady State (Service set to Disabled). This is an SP3 loaded WinXP image. No errors appeared when running Syspep. I have attempted to lay the image down on a Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation machine and both froze at the same point of time. Mini-Setup is freezing at the Light Blue "Please wait while Windows prepare to start...", which appears right at the start of the process.

ANY Help is much appreciated. See screenshot and attached "setup*.log" files.

DropBox URL for setup files.