I haven't read thru the board to know what solutions you may have
tried, but I had the same issue with a few machines I was trying to
update -- I figured out that these Office updates require SP1 or SP2
for Office 2003 --
wrote:
> Four MS Office 2003 Updates will not install. I have tried on 56
> Windows XP computers with Office 2003 Pro, and these four updates won't
> install on any of them. All other Microsoft high-priority and optional
> updates have been installed. Several posts by others in these
> newsgroups have been worked through with anyone having a solution. So
> I'll take a crack at it.
>
> Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB919031 7/10/2006)
> Security Update for Excel 2003 (KB918419 7/10/2006)
> Security Update for Office 2003 (KB917151 7/11/2006)
> Security Update for Office 2003 (KB914455 7/10/2006)
>
> Past posters have put up good struggles, such as turning off the
> firewall, disk cleanup, registry cleanup. Does anyone have a solution
> to fix this?
>
> Glenn
> NJ USA