WHQL signing is confused on custom XPSP2 disc

[jcg]

Hello! I used nLite as a starting point for setting up a custom XP SP2 disc and then started experimenting with my own changes, namely tweaking the registry and obliterating Windows Messenger. Somewhere along the line, however, my test installs have started complaining that a set of standard Windows drivers aren't WHQL-certified, giving me the "such-and-such has not passed Windows logo testing" spiel and requiring me to confirm their installation. The drivers that do this are as follows:

• Audio Codecs
  
• Legacy Audio Drivers
  
• Media Control Devices
  
• Legacy Video Capture Devices
  
• Video Codecs
  
• Microsoft WINMM WDM Audio Compatibility Driver
  
• Microsoft Kernel System Audio Device
  
• Microsoft Kernel Audio Splitter
  
• Microsoft Kernel Acoustic Echo Canceller
  
• Microsoft Kernel GS Wavetable Synthesizer
  
• Microsoft Kernel DLS Synthesizer
  
• Microsoft Kernel Wave Audio Mixer
  
• Microsoft Kernel DRM Audio Descrambler
  

The only significant thing I remember doing to the install set before this started happening was to remove the msmsgs.* package and to add some custom settings to the hive*.inf files. I doubt that removing msmsgs would trip up WHQL, but could changing the hive*.inf files do so? Is there some other file I might have inadvertently removed that could cause this trouble?

If it's important, the base I'm working from is Windows XP Pro with SP2, KB873339, 885835, 885836, 886185, and 890175 slipstreamed. My test installs are being done in Virtual PC 6 running on Mac OS X 10.3.7.

Thanks for your help!