Thankyou for you suggestions. After further testing it would seem that the MSBlaster patch was the cause of my problems. Able to install on a unpatched w2k/sp3 server. Tony McPhail IT Technical Manager The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory www.salvationarmy.org.au ##################################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal For more information please visit www.marshalsoftware.com #####################################################################################