Galen

I think the duplicate Administrator you suggest would not respond to the
Recovery Console; as I see it, whether the Console is Installed or run from
the Windows CD it looks for the built in Administrator Account? If the spare
would, that is certainly the way to go using the copy profile method in
Microsoft's Article ID 811151.
If not I am minded to try the Repair Install on my backup installation using
the in place method, suggested by David Karp in his book "Windows XP
Annoyances for Geeks".

That is, you start Windows and when it is running you insert the OS CD and
manually start the install and follow it through as a repair at the
appropriate point. My CD has SP 2 incorporated so it might not be too
painful.

I would really like to use the copy method if the account is available from
the Recovery Console at Boot.
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Uncle John