Well - ok - so its not as bad as i said below.... but hey- kiss and make up?
Thanks very much to arnaudt, my trusty beta steed, who has given us a link to the latest build of Windows XP, SP1, 1060. It does have the text in the bottom left corner akin to the beta releases of XP itself (cynics of when i posted this earlier last week may apologise when ready- i quote "this is A FAKE").
Further...
FTP : 129.2.232.67 usename "xp" password "xp"