Check #24 post (you did see the edits I hope? As I'm not suppose to reply to my own post, or anyone actually)
I say explorer.exe resource hack, but you need the line that's missing (umm who knows!)
By the way does ctrl+alt+del work lets say in cmos (ie is it in io.sys or ntldr)
You know SP2 might fix this, then just trim it all down again (you can even order a free CD)