Discovered the problem was with a registry setting I had modified:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\ProgramFilesDir
(I often modify it prior to installing software so that I can control where
the software gets installed)
I was able to determine the problem after Microsoft provided the following
link to install KB911961 manually ... that manual installation provided me
the additional information I needed to identify the problem:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en