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You mentioned that you created this image from a Ghost image, have y0ou done this before? Also have you tried just creating a fresh VMWare image & installing CVSNT server on it? I ran CVSNT server on a Windows XP SP1 then upgraded to SP2 fine for about a year without problems. I even tried both VMWare & Virtual PC.