I used to be extremely interested in tweaking every little bit of the OS back then. In fact, it was the reason I found XP-erience. Now I don't bother that much anymore, and I think it might be for the better. Clean XP installation, no tweaks and registry hacks applied (other than some small things like uxtheme patching etc.) and everything's smooth-sailing.
It's like the OS X Aqua emulation phase I went through at one point. Went nuts with it...modded XP to look like it, modded Linux to look like it, had a great time, and then it all gradually came to a standstill. 🙂
By the way, great resurrection, muzi! 😀