I discovered the error though I don't know how it happened.
My profile id is FINFER.COMHARLE
In the local environment variable TMP & TEMP it looked fine.
However upon translation of these local environment variables they
ended up as shown below.
see FINFER~1.COM
My guess is that something in Windows XP is making an assumption about
a .COM
(It started happening when uninstalled/reinstalled IE7 Beta 3, however
that might be coincidence)
When I discovered what was happening I deleted the local environmental
variables TMP & TEMP and the problem went away. I was able to install
office 2003 and other products also which was causing the problem.
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe" /I "C:\MSOCache\All
Users\90000409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9\PRO11.MSI"
allusers="" LAUNCHEDFROMSETUP=1
SETUPEXEPATH="C:\Office 2003\" SETUPEXENAME=SETUP.EXE /lpiwaeov
"C:\DOCUME~1\FINFER~1.COM\LOCALS~1\Temp\Microsoft Office 2003
Setup(0032)_Task(0001).txt"
LOGVERBOSE=1
STANDALONEOSE="C:\MSOCache\All
Users\90000409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9\FILES\SETUP\OSE.EXE"
CDCACHE="2" DELETABLECACHE="1"
LOCALCACHEDRIVE="C"
DWSETUPLOGFILE="C:\DOCUME~1\FINFER~1.COM\LOCALS~1\Temp\Microsoft Office
2003 Setup(0032).txt"
DWMSILOGFILE="C:\DOCUME~1\FINFER~1.COM\LOCALS~1\Temp\Microsoft Office
2003 Setup(0032)_Task(0001).txt"