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I'll be doing that and rebooting the switches too, let you know in the morning if that resolved the issue.

Might you have an address conflict? If you take new XP machine off net, any chance you can ping that address still?

Was the address previously used elsewhere? If you can look on router/bridge console at ARP entries, does MAC address for that IP match XP machine's NIC?
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