I did some more searching through my registry and the Microsoft knowledge
base. Here is what I found:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/6/29.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=g
n&FR=0&qry=WMI%20ADAP&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000

This article implies that the problem is due to an upgrade from the Win2k
beta to the release version, but on my system, I never had a beta copy!

Peter Shkabara
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