All WinXP Files Created On Dec 31, 1903, 8:00 PM

All my Windows files on both my Internal and External HD show the "Date Created" as Dec 31, 1903, 8:00 PM. The "Date Modified" is the correct date and time. My clock is working and the Mac side is correct. Any ideas?
Richard

Thanks for the reply- Isn't Meta Data the part of the file system that incompletely describes part of the file so you can do a search on a file with other than just the file name? It's been a while since I got into file systems. But how could every single file on the NTFS formatted volume end up with the same creation date?
Update- I just powered on my Macbook in windows xp pro and all the creation dates are now correct. I don't know what to say. There be gremlins in this laptop!
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