BINGO!

yes! I have NTFS.

hhhmmm…i foresee that this problem will not be too difficult for the developers to fix.

the source of the problem sees to have been isolated.

O&O/Avast/NTFS

great forum indeed!

BTW. I’m running O&O as a stand-alone instead of a snap-in to the XP MMC console, I wonder if that has any bearing on this issue.