hey man, i think we had the same problem, and my frined gave me that exact same answer as on how to uninstall SP3. However, for me my recovery console isn't working and I don't know why. When i type in a command in the C:\ it tells me to insert a floppy disk or cd. I don't think it recognizes that i have a C drive or something. Myne must be really corrupted. But we pretty much had the exact same problem, i just gotta figure out how to get recovery console to recognize my C partition.