I'm sure I'm not the only one to have had this problem, but for some reason on certain machines I find that installing Office 2003 works okay up until the point where it has to cache the cab files to ...

In pre-xp pc's I have always (given a separate partition and sufficient space) copied the whole OS cd to hard disc, <BR>a) to reduce use/potential loss/damge <BR>b) much faster installs <BR>c) ...