I spotted a post in the official Atari Temple of Elemental Evil forum (http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=413032&perpage=30&pagenumber=1) where some unhappy customers are complaining about Atari/Troika's indifference regarding the fact that the game is nearly (or completely) unplayable in Windows XP with SP2 installed. Well, as it turns out, there might be hope for ToEE yet. Grok (aka Atari's PR head, Brandon Smith) replied in the thread with:

I'll forward this to the production kids. There's no reason why we would not QA a new patch.Will wonders never cease!