Here I was, with everytrhing just about done.... I turned on my system this morning and saw the "Windows is updating your system settings" message, as if I had recently installed something, even though I haven't installed anything for a week. When the system came up, hardware stretch was no longer working!
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the video driver, no luck there... I'm getting ready to try DirectX 9, but it can't be uninstalled... I'll probably have to wipe the darn system and start over....
I wish I had left this thing running DOS!

Anyone else see their system spontaneously stop using hardware stretch?
--Chris