Just thought I'd add some more people that are seeing the same bug..

http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/forum....asp?TID=17348

Guess I'll formally report to MS and see if that gets anywhere.

"mesostinky" wrote:

I only use static addresses on my network but after both of my machines had
SP2 applied I keep seeing a network icon in my taskbar that when moused over
shows a status of "acquiring network address". It doesn't go away either and
the little animation keep playing even though I am connected to the network
and no settings have been changed. I searched on the net for this and saw
someone else had the same problem with a older prerelease version of SP2.
Interestingly if I switch user to administrator the status shows "connected".
Switching back to my regular Power User account still shows the status
"acquiring network address"even though I'm clearly connected.
I assume this is just some sort of bug with SP2 since I've never seen it
before SP2 but I figured I would post and see if there were any fixes for
this out there.

Mike