Service Pack 2 Works. Period.

STOP asking me why XP service pack 2 screws up your computer.

It doesnt. If you didnt already know, firewall is enabled instantly, so your computer wont be full of loopholes. I don't know why people are having problems, but they seem to be firewall related so it should be something to do with that.

Other than that service pack 2 is great. IE pop up blocker, add on manager (allows you to automatically disable that irritating windows messenger, and auto updates!) IE still doesnt have tabbed browsing for some weird reason so i'll have to still go with Firefox on this one.

Besides, if you want to keep up to date and patch windows to the latest version so you dont get attacked by viruses (like the old blaster virus and what not, i know i got hit) then you'll have to patch anyway.

Go give it a try. Don't worry it wont break your computer. It didnt break mine.