Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll check back in once I advance a little further up the learning curve.

Thanks Mr. S.
Never used the service before today. Seems like I missed the boat by 2 weeks. DRATS!
Not sure how stopping the downloads will increase the number of visitors as suggested by Leers.
So I am at a loss here as to how to proceed. I don't see a pay to play option on the site. I am stuck not be able to reinstall Win XP Pro on a laptop I got from work. I thought I could just use a multilicense copy I own and reinstall on the buggy machine but the copy is a early version of XPPro and install stops. I was hoping slipstreaming would help but now what?

When I try to use update checker on any version for drivers for xp pro sp3 the files come back as unavailable.
What am I doing wrong?