The difficulty here is that the disk image is still in a slightly inconsistent shape, and requires something akin to CHKDSK to be run on it. But the WinXP copy protection would not let us get that far, and it is impossible to call and update the security codes (or whatever they're called) until after CHKDSK.

Checkmate.

Anyway, this is all now history, as I kicked my buddy and his tainted software off the premises long ago -- we don't allow that kind of stuff around here for long! :;