I'd give Roger a chance to read the thread again before resorting to anything like that.

I'm already reading the thread.

For some reason that I can't fathom the Receiver never does the UDP broadcast to find the server.

It's just that I've come to more or less the same conclusion as you. The only thing that I can think of is that the Receiver is sending the packet, but it's being dropped by the router. However, this makes very little sense, since Ethereal (presumably running on the host Win2k box) is seeing the DHCP packets.

Could we recap the OP's network topology? Maybe there's something important that I'm missing.