wodssh and windows xp sp2 (General questions)

Hi, I'm developing a program that will use ssh to do some automatical authentications on various linux machines in lan with an ssh key

I've tried the wodssh library and I'm using it on VC;it works fine, but the clients that will use the program will be windows xp machines, so in few weeks we will install sp2.

Before purchasing the component I have a question: will the component work with the sp2 ?

I'm asking this because I've read that sp2 will not support raw sockets and while doing some debugging on the ConsoleApp example I saw a raw_connect() call.

Thanks for your time.
Damiano Giorgi