Nine Complex Steps to Set the NTP Time Server. An Alternative?

I'm trying to fire up XP as an NTP time server, and I came across nine somewhat
manually complex steps in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054#EXTERNAL. There's
fairly heavy use of registry editing and a win32tm command is used at the end. I also
came across the following, which discusses the win32tm commands.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/techref/en-us/Default.asp?url=/Resources/Documentation/windowsserv/2003/all/techref/en-us/w2k3tr_times_tools.asp.

At the moment it baffles me why instead of the 9 complex steps couldn't the set of
win32tm cmds couldn't be used to completely set up Win XP as a time server. It's the
first time I've ever seen them. It seems as though MS could provide some sort of
program to do the necessary configuration in those nine steps. I would think this is
a fairly common need. Perhaps there is such a program or mechanism (other than
manually entering the nine steps)?

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