I am trying to apply some hkey_current_user registry patches during the t-12min time. These patches work perfectly work windows xp but when ported to windows 2000 they don't get applied to the default user profile like in xp. They keys are correct (checked this out first) but just don't seem to get applied. Any clues???

Does anyone know of a command line tool that will apply a reg file to the default user registry hive?

reg.exe - from the resource kit. I use with great success in batch files run from cmdlines.txt, runonceex.cmd, etc.