Thanks for all the ideas folks i really appreciate the feedback. Turns out after trying to duplicate it on my secondary system I found that when i had reinstalled XP on my main system I ran all the updates for it before i installed any other software. I hadn't updated in a month or so and after 3 reinstalls i decided to check my second system and found there were serveral updates available on windows update for it also. Once they were installed the same thing happened on that system also. So i reinstalled XP once again and did no updates and it is working perfectly now, so one of the updates to XP that came out in the last month or so was the problem.