Call To Guid Property Of Scriptlet.TypeLib Times Out

I use following code in an ASP page to generate a GUID:

<%
dim obj
Set obj = Server.CreateObject("Scriptlet.TypeLib")
Response.Write(obj.guid)
Set obj = nothing

%>

It worked fine on my WIN2000 computer running IIS. I recently bought a
new computer with XP Pro and this page times out. I now it is the call
to obj.guid. I have seen the same behaviour on another XP machine as
well.

The funny thing is if I paste this code into VB and display the guid
in a message box, it runs without a problem.

Any ideas, is this not supported in XP?