typing mistake ~ there is not a duplicate [section2]
i don't have access to the office2000.res.kit ~

Just copied a defualt.prf from the web, & ran it again ~ still no go
under a pre-configured MS Exchange Settings Subkey, i have plent of sb-sub keys, but under my username subkey ~ i have only 4 & none of them have the exchange configured keys
~ the solution seems pretty simple ~ but can't figure it unless i have a dodgy profgen.exe & newprof.exe

..anything else i could check ?

ms. s