Draw lines thinner than 1pt in CS2

Hello everybody,
I want to draw lines thinner than 1pt with CS2. But Illustrator refuse to change the weight to 0.5 or any float number in the Stroke menu. Is there a way to fix that? This problem really drives me crazy.
Thanks
Note: I'm running Illustrator on Windows Vista

OK, I finally found the issue. I have installed an English version of Illustrator on a French version of Vista. But French use a comma (",") for float numbers, not a point (ex: 0,5pt instead of 0.5pt). Illustrator is a bit confused by that since it proposes me weights of "0.5pt", "0.25pt" etc in the Stroke Menu. So, if I want to draw a line of "0.5pt", I need to explicitly write "0,5pt" as weight in the Stroke Menu.

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