Does the issue go away when you restart the Windows Management Instrumentation (Winmgmt) service and rerun the check? I found some reports about memory leaks in Wndows Server 2008 which can cause this issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981314
Windows Check_WMI checks sporadic failures
Re: Windows Check_WMI checks sporadic failures
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