I tried installing SS pretty soon after the computer was reinstalled. I think Firefox and Thunderbird were the only other things installed at the time. S'no biggie If it don't work it don't work. Especially seeing as this is a beta version of R2 running on top of Windows Server 2003. In the long run I'll make the computer a dual boot (XP for games, Server to dev on) which should solve the problem. Thanks for trying