Sharon, I've been experimenting with the Install Fax. I
found a whole slew of thwe fxs*.dll files in my hard
drive in C:\windows\system32\dllcache .... maybe even all
that the Fax Installer might need. But it won't accept
them in the installation process.

So I followed your msconfigExpand clue, and "expanded"
a few of them and saved them in a new folder C:\dllfiles.
Well, when I tried to Install, leading it to that folder
when it stopped during Install, looking for those files,
it wouldn't take them, either. It insists it wants them from
i386 on the CD ... yet, as I mentioned to you, on my XP Pro
Installation CD (*not* my OEM's Restore CD), they are all
present in .dl_ form. Has anything I've tried given you any
more clues as to how I can get past this roadblock?
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William B. Lurie