Windows 2000 Won’t Logon Locally

I was recently asked to repair a nontechnical friend’s Windows 2000 Pro machine that wouldn’t logon. I booted it first from Peter Nordahl’s password change disk and reset the Administrator password.

I then rebooted, and the machine took about half and hour to get to the login screen. It appears that the computer somehow joined a nonexistant domain, and it is trying to get profile info from a network that doesn’t exist.

Well, I ought to be able to just select Local Machine on the drop-down, but it isn’t there. Does anyone have a solution?