On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:31:29 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

So I followed your msconfigExpand clue, and "expanded"
a few of them and saved them in a new folder C:\dllfiles.

As I stated before, I didn't think that would work. At least you've learned
how to expand files if the need should ever arise. Have you tried copying
the i386 folder from the borrowed CD to the hard drive and using that to
install yet?

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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User