Office 03 SP2 - This worked for me.

I'm reposting a message from "Lowery" because, after 99% of the
suggestions on this board (most good) I found that this resolved the
issue.
I'm assuming that most here use some kind of registry clean up tool.
It wouldn't hurt to check out the below process. It worked for me.

****Repost***

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:03:02 -0700, Lowery <>
wrote:

>As many have come to discover, I also had errors when attempting to install
>the newly-released SP2 update for Office 2003. In my case, PcOnPoint was
>overly zealous in removing a registry entry that is required by the Office
>2003 Setup Program.
>
>You can find instructions in KB884298 on re-creating the registry "path" key
>that has to point to the original installation source, which, in my case, was
>'d:\english\office_system\officepro2003.'
>
>Once I created this 'path' registry entry, all was well installing the new
>update.
>
>Hope this helps someone.


Rejoice!!
I did EXACTLY as you wrote; d/loaded the KB's; edited my registry
(very carefully after doing a backup) and it WORKED!
FYI, I use Registry 1st Aid an a regular basis.
I went into it upon completing the regedit correction and added my
entire E:\ drive (CD-ROM) to the exception list.
Your suggestion/solution solved many questions I've had.
OT: Kodak EasyShare software would occassionaly crash and I had to
reinstall. I didn't know it was looking at my E:\drive.
Same for some other graphics software I use.
Long story short.....I shoulda' read the WARNING!

Thanks so much for heading me in the right direction.

Grant Ames
New York State