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Hi Paul and Everybody,

UPDATE:

This Ham friend finally tried the following (below) and he told me via
email that it "worked great". He also wants to THANK everybody for
their responses.

John


WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe
MD5 = bb25707c919dd835a9d9706b5725af58
331,805,736 bytes

http://download.windowsupdate.com/ms...2300ebfde4.exe

The number at the end of that filename,
is the SHA1 checksum. I just ran SHA1 on my
year 2009 download of SP3, and it's the
same number.
Paul