[Squire1417]

I was running MS Money 2000 since 11/99 when I bought a box that came with it. That box died. To restore the bundled software I would have to take a clean box, let the recovery CD put win98 on it and then go from there. Instead I took a clean box, went straight to Win 2K+SP4+all_updates_to_date and then used my (MS Backup) backup dataset to restore all my programs and data. More than 80% of my installed apps worked fine, but not Money. Since I couldn't reinstall Money 2000, I bought a retail Money 2003 and installed it. It splashes and wavs, then dies. It seems to have killed Firefox 3.0. I uninstalled Money 2003, reinstalled it and reinstalled Firefox 3.0. Money still (again) splashes and wavs then dies.

Since it may matter: I have an MSDN subscription, and its shameful how often the MSDN CDs exhibit setup failures. Originally my MSDN Office 2000 premium SR1 refused to setup because it could not detect a version of office that permitted an upgrade. Using a retail copy of Office 2000 Small Business Edition, I installed that. After which my MSDN Office Premium SR1 loaded. Then I loaded Office 2000 Developer SR1, then Office 2000 SP3 FAILED (could not detect a valid Office 2000 installation). I knew I could fix that if I could edit the msi file, so I downloaded ORCA from microsoft and when I tried to run its own setup I got "not a valid win 32 executable". I swear, its hard to imagine how Bill made so much money with so many idiots on his payroll. Anyway, I installed Money 2003 *after* all this screwing around with Office 2000.