Can anybody else with a Windows system reproduce the problem? The messages in the links above are said to contain enough information to do so.
windows XP pro SP2 PostgreSQL 8.0.1
this is working for me (but not tested on win 2000 system): CREATE TYPE product AS (name varchar, price numeric);
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