CSA causing WMI issues?

We are using Cisco Security Agent 5.1.0.79. We have 491 clients, mostly Win XP.
We have noticed that within 3 days of CSA installation on a PC, WMI quits working. If you try to connect to a PC using wmimgmt.msc, you get the message: "Failed to connect to (PC name) because <Null>: No such interface supported.
If we reset Windows security using the command: "secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose" The problem is fixed, at least temporarily.
About 45-50% of our PCs are affected.
This is a big deal for us because we use SMS for automated patching and inventory of PCs, and SMS relies heavily on WMI.
The only fix seems to be to remove CSA. Putting the host in Test Mode, or turning off security don't seem to make a difference.
Nothing that we see in the MC event log seems to be connected to the problem.
Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks for your response. This issue is puzzling because the problem (WMI becoming non functional) happens even when the host is in Test Mode, or when security is set to off.
We have done some tuning to allow SMS to do inventory, install patches etc... It's mostly working, although our servers outside the DMZ are still having a few issues.
We have checked for rules not logging and haven't found that to be the issue yet.
All hosts are in a normal state when this happens. We have very few hosts that go into rootkit. It's always a false alarm when they do. That's another story...
I'm having some luck with the fix for an old bug. Evidently to fix a buffer overflow exploit, Cisco previously recommended disabling csauser.dll.
That appears to be working on some of my test boxes. Unfortunately, disabling the network shim also works some of the time.
We don't have a real clear answer yet.
Tim

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