"not official .NET Passport-participating site." on 1 machine

From: Boxopoo (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/03 

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:15:41 -0700

Not a developer, but no help from passpriv@microsoft.com or
nfssup@microsoft.com for 2 weeks. Please redirect if I'm
in wrong place...

All logins to hotmail from 1 machine return error:

"Unknown .NET Passport Site"
"The .NET Passport service is currently unavailable at
this Web site for one of these reasons:
Passport service.
. The site may not be an official .NET Passport-
participating site."

All logins keep looping back to same "Change email or re-
enter password" display, even though .NET does log in.
Home hotmail page looks spoofed - missing .NET logout in
upper right.

I can login from other machines.
Found lots of registry entries with "hotmail"
and "passport", including comments like "scriptable
services for passport" & "get a passport wizard"
Don't want to delete if dangerous.

Seems to redirect when attempting to login.
I could run multiple hotmail sessions from same email
bfore this happened (after I notified MSN I could run
multiple sessions, can't log in now ;-) ..??....)

Have deleted / reloaded IExplorer 6.00
Run updates for XP PRo, and IExplorer 6.0
Changed .NET info, updated, changed password.
Only thing left (I think) unchanged is registry.

I can attach suspicious .reg, send URLS from login/out
attempts - or can I just delete references to all .NET and
passport and hotmail from registry?

...appreciatively,
KC