Thanks guys - Zoink - no, just yet another 'install/repair' - the previous had all been successful.
Mac - I am interested to hear of your reinstall - another mod has also had an 'unexplained' XP crash - and I
also suspect a corrupted kernel, as the original was crashing on the start of the second MS splash. Is there 'something new' out there?
Whilst poking around in a few of the logs from around the suspected crash time is see entries like this
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Just a coincidence there? - and no, before you all ask - I haven't.................