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Old May 11th 05, 09:37 PM
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Is Microsoft Office involved...?...

http://search.support.microsoft.com/...dv=1&spid=1139 MSKB
Search "Verify that the patch package exists"; FrontPage 2000; This
Product Only; Full Text; All Words; Anytime; produces...

• Full-file version update may request Office source files
(840169) - Describes an issue where you may be prompted to provide the
Office source files when you install a full file version of an Office
hotfix or update.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;840169


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There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Borisgoodenough" wrote in
message ...
| After many system problems, I recently reinstalled Windows 98SE and
created a
| new registry. Of course, this has meant reinstalling the applications
to
| create entries in the new registry, even though the program files are
| still on the hard drive.
|
| But FrontPage 2002 won't reinstall. I'd purchased the upgrade version,
for
| FrontPage 98 (and long-since pitched the FP98 disk). The FrontPage
2002 disk
| starts Window Installer, then halt with the message: This patch
package
| could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you
can
| access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a
valid
| Windows Installer patch package.
|
| Trying to start the existing installation of FP2002 directly from
| frontpg.exe, it halts with the message: A required DLL file,
fpcutl.dll, was
| not found. (The file actually DOES exist in the Office10
subdirectory, but
| obviously the necessary registry entries to find it are missing.)
|
| Suggestions on how to proceed? TIA!