Cannot uninstall Office 2003 Beta

[Blair]

My Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 (Beta) has
expired. Attempt to use Add or Remove a Program, Remove
button or Change button results with msgbox error:
"Windows Installer terminated prematurely."
There are two green blocks in Gathering Required
Information.

OS is pre-installed Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
2002 Service Pack 1. The Box is HP Pavilion AMD Athelon
(tm) XP 2200+ 1.80 GHz 440 MB of RAM.
HD is NTFS with 41.3 GB free; 720MB paging file. No
previous Office was installed.

Any assistance greatfully appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Jerry Ham]

Are you running the Windows Installer 3.0 Beta? A co-worker of mine had
trouble with installing / uninstalling Office 2003 when running the Windows
Installer 3.0 beta. If this is the case, try going back to Windows Installer
2.0 first.

Jerry

 

[Blair]

Thanks. I tried to install Windows Installer 2 but is
"wrong OS" for XP Home. So I installed Office 2000 with
Office 2003 still there and chose the remove previous
version of Office option. Seems to have installed
successfully although old shortcuts need to be removed or
Office 2003 splash screens will appear along with the
expired message so there is still some evil there.

BTW, No Problem uninstalling Office 2003 from Windows 2003
..NET Enterprise trial.