why not just turn syskey back on?

start, run, type syskey.exe and turn encryption back on.

you may want to delete that computer from the domain then then readd it.

if syskey is required to log into the domain, then yes... it could cause you not to get authenticated.

I thought that syskey is only used for the local machine though? Not for logging into the domain? What type of domain are you using? NT4 or 2k with active directory?

thats a little strange though... because I thought once syskey is enabled, it can't be disabled?

what did you use? The ntoffline password recovery?

and, what are you talking about someone trying to ban you? if someone assigned you points, it must not have counted (showed up as grey) because the status of this thread is even....