thanx SuperSparks, good link but it may be that i'm not using the right words to search it, i can't seem to find anything that even says it possible to edit the registry of an Offline (non-booted) OS like XP.

I'm sure this could be done with Win9X because the registry was just a file(s) on the drive, maybe i'm wrong, but it shouldn't be asking to much to edit it if it's just another file in a ghost image...

What i'm hoping to do is find the registry file within my ghost image, open it up in some sort of registry editor, delete some keys and put the pre-edited registry file back in the image replacing the old registry file... Then i can use this ghost image on any other partition...