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Well for my case, my company uses cisco's vpn software. So in the background it runs this service called BlackIce, which tends to block certain networking devices such as activesync (if in rndis mode) or internet sharing. To turn this off, I went under Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services. Under that I see the service "BlackIce" and click stop. Sometimes that gets hung, so you can kill it directly from under taskmanager, its blackd.exe. After that, i just turn on internet sharing, plug in the usb cable and thats it. Im also running XP.
This helped me get an IP. May not be your problem/solution, but it worked for me.
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