OK, here is a new solution (referenced under a WinME discussion)

My problem was that any application that I would start or folders I would open (including 
start menu) would cause the floppy to activate.

I had a reference to A: in my PATH environmental variable (System Properties - Advanced 
tab - Environmental variables).  Also found a path statment with a reference to A: 
in my autoexec.bat file.  Did not think that file was used with XP but it caused 
A: to be added to the environmental path.

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