How to troubleshoot failures updating your Office installation from the Office Update Web site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304498
See Method 7: Identify and correct corrupted Office installations
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TaurArian [MS-MVP] 2005-2006
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"tom29" <> wrote in message
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>I get this message when I try to download an Office Update: "Windows
> Installer patch files (.MSP files) are missing, etc... If the files are
> missing you will not be able to apply Office updates."
> This started after I deleted about 40 $NtUninstallKB files. Even though I
> restored all of these files from the Recycle Bin, I still got the above
> message. Is there any hope of recovering those files? Thank you for any
> help.