It was an XP Home system. And as I stated, if I used a boot CD, the boot.ini file did not appear to have any switch in it that was forcing Windows...
The only way for me to get to the command prompt is via the Recovery Console after booting via the XP Setup CD. When I do that, I see the switch...
I have a client's computer that I am having some issues with. The computer was apparently getting slow and was always booting straight to safe...
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