I now possess a true mce SP3 disc

[EricB]

the best part about it is that I put my serial in with nlite. it install and it didn't ask me to activate it and it still updates just fine

 

[EricB]

I did a reinstall on my kids computers and put their serial in and it didn't require activation either.

their solution to creating this disc was to included net framwork 2.0 on but leave update rollup pack 2 out. this solve the media center part rolling back to an outdated version. after install head to windows update for update rollup pack 2