The time stamps reported on the download site do strike me as peculiar, but
when comparing the version numbers of the two redist packages, Everything
seems to be in order:
English: 1.1.4322.573
German: 1.1.4322.579
Have you by chance tried installing service pack 1, and if so, did that
make any difference? I'd be very surprised though if the language version
of the redist had any affect on functionality. It may be that the German
redist package was corrupted on download or during install.
Cheers,
Garrett
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>From: "Devin Dow" <devin@rsi-inc.com>
>Subject: German 1.1 Framework is older than English
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>Devin Dow
>Please email responses to Devin.Dow@rsi-inc.com

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