> A few days ago I had to reinstall the whole OS (not for 
this
> problem ;) )
> The problem is back even on the fresh win 2k installation.

Darn, this is crazy, I use W2K (WinHTTrack is developped on 
W2K) and I can' yet reproduce this issue :(.

Any specific thing on this W2K ? (specific language ? 
service packs ? exotic antivirus or addon ? )