I have Office 2000 Pro SR-1 and recently tried the Office 2003 Trial version.
I decided I liked Outlook 2003 an bought it and reinstalled Office 2000
minus Outlook. Now whenever I launch Publisher 2000 Windows Installer starts
and returns the error "The feature you are trying to use...." "Please insert
the 'Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Disc 2' disc to continue."

Inserting the disc causes Publisher to start. Canceling eventually leads to
error 1607 "...no valid source could be found..."

Any help is appreciated.
Lenox

Lenox wrote:
First off - you did not need to uninstall Outlook 2000 to install Outlook
2003 - it would've taken care of uninstalling it during the upgrade
procedure, and would have retained all your settings. I suspect that is why
you are having this problem.

That said - I'd try running a repair installation of Office 2000. Then try
reinstalling/repairing Outlook 2003. Just a guess/suggestion.

Back up your data (including your PST file(s) ) first.

I tried repair and full reinstall. Neither worked. Something is amiss in
the registry I think. I did find a workaround. By copying DATA2.MSI from
Office 2000 CD-2 to the directory where PUB.EXE is located the program starts
without the prompts.

Does this give any clue to what the root of the problem is?

Lenox

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

See if this helps.

Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301


You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in
Office 2003, in Office XP, or in Office 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...533&sid=global

Download, install, and then run the Windows Installer CleanUp utility to
remove the Windows Installer registry settings that are associated with your
Office installation. The following file is available for download from the
Microsoft


"Lenox" wrote:

Thanks but it's been done. Didn't help.

Lenox

"kenlo" wrote:

If you have tried many ways and none of them worked, you can create a new
user. Uninstall all Office from the original user and do a new installation
in the new user. If that works, transfer everything over to the new user and
delete the old one.

"Lenox" wrote:

Thanks but, copying DATA2.MSI from Office 2000 CD2 works great. (See my
previous posts) I don't know why but it does.
Lenox

"kenlo" wrote:

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