Cannot uninstall windows XP service pack 2

On 5/6/05 I reconnected my computer to the internet after being disconnected
from it for the past several months. I have an HP Pavillion 876XL with an
AMD Celeron processor at 1200 mHz Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.D. I have
multiple boot sectors including Windows ME which came with this computer,
Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional both of which I
purchased later.

I have had my computer setup to boot to Windows XP but can choose to boot in
Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Recovery Console also.

I realized after I did the Windows "Automatic Update", which I had done
several times before without problems, that there were problems with the
Celeron processors and Windows XP SP2.

I have tried to use the $NTservicepackuninstall$ utility in Recovery Console
but get an "access denied" message when running the batch spuninst.txt
utility. I have also tried to uninstall by booting up windows 2000 but
cannot find the winxpsp2 folder described in the instructions. I have also
tried to look for a BIOS update that I can obtain but have not been able to
locate this so far. I won't have access to my original Windows XP
Professional Disk for another week since I am away from my home on business.

Can you offer any suggestions?
--
ddh0905
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