Not sure if you have tried yet, but maybe one of these hacks will help?
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Yeah.....I dont think its possibly an issue with your ISP restricting access to the modem (although we all know how crazy they are becoming these days), its got to be an issue with the router and its...

Dont ask me how this matters or why, but i resolved a similar issue with remote desktop by making sure i created administrator user accounts on each PC and logged in with a password on...

We are missing something here!

You need to be more specific and let me know each stage that your able to go through with the install procedure and then point out EXACTLY where it fails so i can...

Sounds like a bad disc sector or write error then!

Did you burn the OS onto the disc yourself or is it a genuine XP install disc?

Have you set your bios to boot from the install disc?

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Link to HijackThis:
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