So far I think the partition alignment may just be the problem.

When I created these partitions in XP I made them all 20GB primaries using the value of 20480MB.

I booted to another PE disk and deleted all the partitions.  Then I used Partition Magic (just because it was handy).

To boot into DOS and create 4 primary partitions 20GB in size, since PM doesn't know about offset partitions they were all created with cylinder alignment just like XP would make them.

I then booted to the Ghost disc and restored the 4 images into those existing empty partitions.  Again restoring "all 4 at once" like Deric preferes.

Everything worked fine, I can boot into each of the 4 operating systems with no problems or without having to fix anything.

EasyBCD shows all the entries are present just like before making the image.

Curiously, I did not get the extra entry added to the boot menu this time.  Perhaps that only gets added if something changes and maybe that explains why I have never seen anything added to the boot menu before.

Still have a few more things to test before moving on to copy drive.

Dave