Major frustrations with "Path is too deep" copy problems...help??

Hello, all.

Unfortunately, I'm another "victim" of this apparently too-well-known
"Cannot copy file - Path is too deep" problem. I'm coming here pleading
for help and suggestions.

Scenario:

Two brand-new Dell XPS 400 2.8Ghz Pentium D machines with Intel
10/100/1000 PL integrated NIC, 250 GB Maxtor hard drive formatted NTFS,
Windows XP Pro SP2.

These two machines are connected via a Linksys BEFSR41 cable/DSL
router, with the router's DHCP server assigning addreses to each.

When attempting to copy a large (2.8MB) file between these machines
(either direction), the copy hangs and ultimately fails with the "Path
is too deep" error. Here is what I've attempted to fix this problem:

* Changed each NIC from AutoDetect to 100MBPS/FullDx
* Disabled all Antivirus, firewalling, and related s/w.
* Applied MS KB "TcpAckFrequency" registry setting.
* Applied MS KB "Adaptive_ifs" (interframe spacing for Intel nics)
* New ethernet cables for each machine.
* Already using latest NIC driver from Dell website.
* Changed ports for each machine on the router.
* Checked for conflict of IRQ's between NIC and onboard modem; disabled
modems as both were using IRQ 17.
* Performed independent speed/performance tests for each machine to
dslreports.com; each reported clean/clear performance w/no recommended
tweaks
* Pings between each machine (both ways) are always clean and < 1ms
* Upgraded the firmware on the router to the latest version (1.5)
* Run Performance Monitor on each machine during file copies; NO
discarded packets inbound/outbound, no packet errors inbound/outbound,
no packet discards inbound/outbound.
* I've probably tried some other things that I've forgotten by now :)

When I copied files from an old WinME machine to one of the new XPS
400s on this same network/router/etc, I had no trouble at all.

At this point, I'm down to blaming the router, but each machine to/from
the internet works properly. I'm also wondering if there might be
something peculiar with this combination of a (relatively) new NIC and
the router. However, most other posts I've read on this are of the
general opinion that this is a Post-SP2 OS-level bug, not a hardware
problem.

If anyone has any fresh ideas to try, I'm open. This is *very*
frustrating. Please reply to the group here, as the email I use in this
message is dead.

Thanks in advance,
David

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