I have resigned to the fact that this is some anomaly in my base image. While I have no idea what that is, I am convinced that it is not reproducible on another clean XP Sp3 so while the error exists, it is solved by packaging on another image and has nothing to do with the version of Thinapp in use.

Thanks for all your help Maddy.

Bryan

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