I didn't see your earlier post, but I just came across a link where an MSDN user is talking about the notion of being able to install on up to ten machines and the activation scheme is preventing it; and MSDN cstomer support has/had no solution. The link is

http://www.activewin.com/comments.asp?ArticleID=3159&Group=2

(after you load the page, do a text search for MSDN)

Guy

>>I did a web search on "activation" and "Windows XP" yesterday and one of the news articles that I hit said that companies who have volumne licensing arrangements or MSDN will not be subject to activation limitations (or something to that effect).
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>THe document I posted in this thread says that about the volumes. It was from a Windows MVP that I heard MSDN worked the same way.