I've got the above system running on a MacBook, and when I ran the Windows Updates from the latest batch over the last couple of days my XP got stuck in a loop. it would boot, display a "windows shutting down" box, count down, rebooot, rinse lather repeat. the box sez something about a DCOM Server Process Launcher Service.

I've restored to a previous snapshot and it works fine. Running MS UPdate breaks it again.

Any idea how to solve this?

Thanks!