Ok..right above "Connections" the "{4D36...}" thingies should be expandable, and the first one should have more sections with weird descriptions surrounded by "{}". On my machine it looks like this :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\
-{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
-{E48CD24E-14A3-427B-99DC-61493041E66E}
-Connection

Then there's another with a "Connection" sub-folder.

In the "connection" folder there's a String Value called "Name", once again in my machine, there's one that says "Local Area Connection" and another "Local Area Connection 2", that is, one (and only one) for each of my local area connections. The problem comes when you have more registry keys than connections. That means Win has leftovers from a previous network connection and failed to transport that to the new NIC drivers (sounded clearer in my head, hope I expressed it clearly).

If there is one for each of your connections, Ok...the problem's somewhere else.

But if you have "ghost" connections (i.e. they're in the registry but you can't see them from Network Properties) you can try erasing them at the third level folder and rebooting. It worked for me a few times, but I also had to reinstall W2k on one of the machines so I dunno....

What you have to do is erase them so that the "Network" folder remains with everything else in it except ANY network connections, ex:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\{E48CD24E-14A3-427B-99DC-61493041E66E}

Here erase the "{E48CD24E-14A3-427B-99DC-61493041E66E}" part, leaving the "Network" folder and the first subfolder intact. Leave all of the others alone.

Lemme make sure...(sorry for the toilet paper post but don't wanna screw you up)

Under the "Network" folder, you should originally have four folders labeled "{4D36E9...}" and one labeled "Connections".

Of the four {4D36E9...} folders you want to erase the one which contains a "Descriptions" subfolder (there's only one), all other folders and subfolders should be left untouched.

Please be careful when doing this as you can really f%#$ up your system.