Not so weird, really ... the first version of the service pack <i>did</i> have the Virtual Machine. In fact, if you already have it installed, you can still get a fairly recent update for the MSVM through Windows Update. You just can't download it as a individual download from the web site ... you'd have to search and try to find it elsewhere (which is not an easy proposition, since most of the web sites I found just posted links to the VM at Windows Update, before SP1a was released, so all of those links are "dead".)
I have both the Sun and the MS version, and when I update a new version of WinXP (for those people who want it) I still install SP1 and the Sun plug-in, so the users can switch between the two (if they wish) under the Advanced tab of the browser's Internet Properties.
You may still be able to find build 3805 as a single download (from an unaffiliated site), but the last time I searched, I only found one site that had a newer version, such as build 3810. I couldn't begin to tell you where that was at this point, and I didn't even bother to install the file ... I just kept using the Sun plug-in. The search wasn't even worth the effort.
Toey
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