Yeah, its a typical Windows bug - 'reinstall about once a month and it should be fine'.

There was something goofy about the configuration of our drafting lab at school, I don't know what it was, but we were one of the first networks in the nation to run NT4.0 in that configuration. I was lucky enough to be the student admin 3 months after it was installed. We had a problem that we couldn't figure out. Our admin and I were on a phone call to Tech Support describing the situation and trying to find an answer. After about an hour and a half they go 'yeah, we've seen this before, but don't know the cause of it - reinstalling the entire network once a month seems to prevent the problem though'.

I guess I just didn't give XP enough time to break before deciding that I liked it