You probably don't care anymore but I bet I know what your problem is.
I'm guessing that your clean XP2 machine isn't. The first thing people do after setting up the O/S these days is install thier favorite spyware / anti-virus / startup blocker stuff. That's good, sort of. These programs are not often written very well, in part because the architecture of windows makes this difficult to do well.
If you first, login as a user with administrative rights to the computer and then disable or remove any "security" software I would almost gauantee that your install will work fine.
This is becomming a common problem. How did you reset the access right on your registry btw? that could come back and kick you in th rear if you did it wrong.
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