Looked at event viewer. Nothing there. This happened a while ago and event viewer doesn't go far enough back. My dad looked at it back then and says he could find no explanation for my systems behavior. Also, when I removed SP2 I had to do a regular install of XP. When I tried to use Add/Remove programs, I got some message about Bosnian not being a supported language for unicode. It referred me to document which did not exist.