I tested on WinXP pro SP3.
Like Ruud said above it looks like that this is related to something that MS changed in the OS. So Win2K might be fine when WinXP is not writing the stuff as it should.

I do not have Win2K here so I can’t test. Can you try it on XP SP3?
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