Parser --- Value creation failed" at line 451

[MRV]

We are about to start a 2000 to XP upgrade (not a format/install).
Unfortunately we just encountered a bug that only seems to affect some
systems, no consistancy has been linked between the systems. The
problem is accessing the add/remove programs applet in the control
panel. When trying to open an error is returned with the title
"Parser" and the msg box says "value creation failed" at line 451".
From what I have found this seems to be due to the themes (how & why I
dunno). For the pilot upgrades it seems to be afecting only half of
them. The themes for pilot upgrades only contain the XP classic
theme, the default theme when performing a clean install of XP is not
available. I attempted to copy & replace the themes folder from
C:\windows\resources\ to the upgraded computer and apply the theme but
this did not work. I also replaced the uxtheme.dll & themeui.dll on
the malfuntioning systems and reregistered the themeui.dll but to no
avail...

Thanks for any help you can provide in resolving this issue.

 

[wazburn]

try to use stylexp, it has some themes to be applied for,i have encountered the same problem only when i changed into a theme, when that happened i just use stylexp and switches to some themes. the problem was from some of the themes itself.