Office XP Installation bug

[DrDance]

Got a very weird bug with installation of Office XP.

Here's the scenario:

I had Win98 installed and Office XP.

Uninstalled Office XP.

Upgraded to Windows XP and trying to re-install Office XP.

The setup wizard will not go any further when I hit the next button and the browse button is grayed out with C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office in the command line.

I have deleted all registry entries which refer to Office and have Administrator rights for my profile.

I've searched the Microsoft Knowledge Base and all forums but cannot find anyone else with this error.

Please help if you can, or I have to do a format and that's going to be ugly because I've set up all other files and software and it took a few days to get them set up the way I wanted them :-(

 

[jfhewitt]

I read somewhere last year that Microsoft had some cockamainy protective program that you had to get permission to reinstall Office XP. Might check it out with MS KnowledgeBase.