[JacobGH]

Well that royally sucked, but I finally got it working. I used PhilBot's suggestion about disabling the network at the Control Panel Level, but even that wasn't enough. Here's what I did in Windows XP.

1. (PhilBot's instructions) Control Panel -> Network Connections. Right-click "Wireless Network Connection" and select disable. My machine also lists "1394 Connection" so I disabled that too (might be necessary, but don't know).
2. Physically disabled the wireless card. On my Dell Laptop that was accomplished with Fn-F2.
3. Run the cRio imaging tool.

Initially, I didn't do step 2 and it failed with the same error as before. I suspect that steps 1 & 2 must be done in order though I haven't tested it.

This whole setup process has been excruciatingly painful, even beyond the cRio imaging tasks, and as a professional software engineer FIRST will be hearing from me later about good software development and management practices.