I wish I could do that but I'm back home now and using my own machine without problems. However, knowing that I would be using a different machine during Christmas travels I burned a copy of my TWS build 783.0 and Java version SE v.1.4.0_01 and took it with me and installed it on the offending XP machine. The video card was an ENY ??? 64mb. No Idea about sound card.
I don't use alarms much any more, but I used to get hung a lot when I was in the middle of navigating through an "insert ticker" menu (specifically, choosing option series from the popup) when an alarm got triggered. This is on NT.
Well thanks all for responses. I have upgraded to W2K Pro in the last 2 hours so we will see what tomorrow brings.