old rig... Athalon xp 1700+, 512 ram, about 30 gb free of 80 gb hdd, 300/40 KBs. As far as sp2 goes id prefer to keep it because of the fact that I have a tendency to hop from one thing to another on this computer such as running it as a web server for testing purposes and other things. But if you believe that sp2 may be at fault here, maybe its worth taking a peek.