Using Norton Ghost in conjunction with reinstalling Win XP

If you Ghost'ed a drive or a partition, everything, including the OS, will be restored.  No need to reinstall WinXP.

The trouble is that I probably ghost'ed the corrupted XP.

Try a repair install after restoring the image: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm 

Why is it necessary to restore the image and then do the repair install?  Can't I just do the XP repair install? Also, is the end result of the repair install the same as a clean install?  

If you want to get the programs and data from the Ghost backup, you have to run Ghost.  This will bring back the corrupt OS along with it, so you want to fix the OS at that point.  If you just want to do the repair now, then you don't need to use Ghost, but that assumes your programs and data are ok.  A repair install is not the same as a clean install - the repair just compares system files and copies them, meaning programs and data remain the same.  A clean install means no programs and data are kept; everything has to be reinstalled.

You should try a repair install as said above. What are the problems your having? Also is it XP SP2? if so call the free microsoft support line.

Unlimited support requests are included at no charge

(888) SP2-HELP (772-4357)
No charge support for issues related to SP2.

(god I love posting that, you never see microsoft and free anywhere,but you do there)

lol i just realized it doesn't say free it's "no charge" sorry.

In trying to get our MUVPN to work we had to manually uninstalled a Watchguard MUVPN program, "Safenet".  When trying to reinstall the program the message appears "Safenet uninstallation failed".  Watchguard has told us the only way around this is to reinstall the OS since some files must have become corrupted.  They also told us to format the hardrive and then reinstall XP.  We're trying to avoid this painful task.  That's why I asked, if after formatiing the HD and clean installing XP, would Norton Ghost be helpfull to reinstall our program and data files?  Also, do you think a repair install of XP would solve our problem? Any new suggestions?