NIS v22.x & ghost 15 problem - win xp system

please don't tell me to update to win 7/8.1/10  -

system win XP  -  GHOST 15  -  nis 21.x  (surprise pushed update to v22.x)  this system has only one task  -  print pinfeed labels.

several days ago my win xp system was pushed NIS 22.x. upgrade/update.  seemed to install ok, with some minor issues, i thought.  

i went to the NIS forum and found that NIS v22.x has several issues.

when i went to run my weekly ghost 15 system backup, all started ok.

the problem was that the backup stalled at 94% completion.  NO errors were posted in the log.  

i thought that it may have been a minor glitch with ghost 15.  

i first tried to cancel the ghost backup task  -  NO JOY  -  this made me a little suspicious.

i rebooted and ran live update for ghost 15 & NIS v22.x  -  all seemed to be ok with the live update tasks.

i rebooted the system  -  just to make sure.

i checked the backup disk and noticed that the ghost backup had written the system backup data to the drive, but there were NO log entries concerning the completion of the backup or the stall @ 94%.

at this point, i reran the ghost system backup.

again, it stalled @ 94% completion, with NO errors - NO log entries.  had the same issue when trying to cancel the backup task, it would NOT cancel !!.

again, the backup data had been written to the drive.  no error log, again.

just for my own test, i ran an incremental ghost backup.

well guess what, the incremental backup also stalled.

i am now convinced that there is a problem with NIS v22.x and Norton Ghost 15.

any advise would be appreciated.