What was the date of the last Win98SE Installer
upgrade from Microsoft? I have not bothered to
look for updates since the Security Upgrade disk
(Feb. 2004?) and never suffered thereby until . . .
Open Office v.2.3 instal routine reported my
system needed a newer installer (and then
hung up the PC . . . )

Paradox: Open Office provides its own installers,
INSTMSIA.EXE and INSTMSIW.EXE, dated 11/03/2002
(Microsoft, version 2). The same installers are provided with
Adobe Reader v.6 which instals perfectly. No doubt the fault
is in Open Office's instal routine, but the message demanding
a "newer" installer is curious. . .

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)