i decided to go ahead and remove sp2, and i did , however it must have wiped out the dongle card, i reinstalled the aladdin software and it appearewd to install fine, but i still can not open vectorworks. i removed and reinstalled vectorworks and still no such luck. i called and spoke with tech support, no luck. i'm screwed! i will now reinstall WINDOWS, what a pain.
ATTENTION everyone: DO NOT UPGRADE TO SP2!!!!!