TSGL: can't authenicate

[leveb]

hi all
my first post. I cought a virus, finally had to run xp home recovery 
disk slipstreamed with sp2.
I had to authenicate by internet and no problems. I did the 
recovery,which overwrites your existing
windows and preserves your settings while my cable modem was connected. 
the install found my lan
and every thing seemed to go great. while checking my 
settings,programs,browser and e-mail i realised
i had a virus.  after checking for the problem, i found it was a 
different virus. So did a full format
and reinstall of xp with my network cable unpluged.  I then installed my 
lan settings with my floppy networking disk and clicked to
authenicate my os and a dialog came up saying i had exceeded the number 
of times this disk could be
authenicated.  i had never heared of this and read the text file you 
have to press f8 to acept and it dos not
say anything about the number of times you can authenicate. my disk was 
purchased from sams  club in 2006
,in a green ms box and has been thru the genuine crap required when you 
manually download updates,
 has anyone on the list experienced this and did you  have to purchase a 
new copy of windows.I have three
desktops running windows xp pro and  home and two laptops running xp pro 
and never had a problem with
authenicating. thanks for any reply.
leveb