The XP CD was actually spurred by my recent effort to get my installed copy back into the realm of “legal”. When I had it fixed after my HD crash, the product key had been changed to the corporate product key where I’ve been working the last seven years.
Yeah, I had brough my original CD to the office, that day, but it’s a pre-SP2 CD, so the tech just used a CD that had the corporate image on it, instead, since that one was post SP2.
Viola! XP install was happy again, but product key wasn’t mine.
so, last week I located a utility on the MS website that allowed me to change the XP product key, so I went in and changed it to the one that matches my product CD.
Then, I thought I’d go ahead and slipstream SP2, and SP3 and burn a new Product CD so I’d never get caught short if another hardware failure required O/S repair/restoration.
Odd, perhaps, but I think I I sleep better, now.
Glad you got there, but I’ve not dealt with creating Windows installation CDs so I’m just out of it.