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Ouch. As painful as it is to say this, you are probably going to have to call Microsoft to get it activated.
I would say try activating your Windows XP outside of Parallels. In Windows, Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to...
Just mouse over the icon in the Mac dock and right-click it(or control-click if you have single click Mac mouse). Select "Options" then "Remove...
When you are viewing them on the Mac side, are you using Acrobat, or the Mac's built-in Preview?
It's good to know you have it working, but sorry to hear you had to go to such extremes to make it happen.
Have you already upgraded to 11992? I had a similar problem with my machine, and this was the first thing Parallels told me to try. If that...
Parallels Desktop --> Virtual Machine --> Configure --> Startup and Shutdown --> Startup View and select the desired view.
Same here- ran the 10.6.6 update this morning and have been running fine all day today!
What version of Parallels are you using?