First of all, I want to thank you for all your replies.

LLigetfa: Yes, i tried possible notations. As Kix has been a loose formatted language for long, several "equal" syntactical notations are possible as long as it is clear to the parser what it means. I think that explicit declaration can help to work it better.

jpol: Just send me the privat build. I will look into this and give you a short feedback. The issue has become non-critical to me as I've found a workaround. But if I can help to make kixtart an even better tool, I will.

Regarding the W2k-thing, I can't help either as I have no time for digging into it. What seems obvious to me is that Microsoft has a rather complex directory structure which maps the AD-database-layout. The reason behind this is to store (larger) binary objects not within the AD-database. As script files are external to the AD, FRS (aks "file replication services") is used to synchronize among DCs. It may be probable that they use mechanisms used before in DFS to redirect the script locations for legacy ("downlevel") clients (this is: NT and 9x).

Regards,
Marc