Brand new Dell laptop, nuke and paved.  Wiped the drive completely,
installed Windows XP Pro SP2 on it. Installed Office 2003 Premium.
Installed VS 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers Trial from MSDN
Subscriber Downloads with the only things unchecked are VB.NET, J# and
Crystal Reports.  Installed without problems.

I go to install the Product Documentation and it copies all the files to the
laptop and when it starts merging the indices, at the specific status:
"Merging Help Namespace ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en" it throws
"an unhandled win32 exception occurred in msiexec.exe [2932]."

There are no errors or warnings in the Application or System event logs.
Opening up MSDN Product Documentation after this error results in a
unhandled exception that is logged to the application Event log:

Type: Error
Source: Microsoft Document Explorer
Event ID: 1000
Description: "Faulting application dexplore.exe, version 8.0.50727.42, stamp
4333d0b3, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, stamp 411096b4,
debug?0, fault address 0x000111de.

Now, I've wiped the drive and reinstalled everything from scratch 3 times
now and it does the exact same thing.  I take the EXACT SAME media, in this
case a DVD, and install it to a desktop and it installs successfully.

How can I get this installed or at least working on this laptop?

1. Running Repair on the Product Documentation installation exhibits the
exact same behavior as installing it fresh, ie., it causes an exception.
2. Mounting the ISO image downloaded from MSDN and repairing still errors.
3. Burning a new DVD from the newly downloaded ISO image from MSDN
Subscriber downloads still errors.
4. Clearing out my C:\Windows\Temp and repairing still errors.
5. Copying the \MSDN directory to the hard drive and installing from there
still errors.

Help?!

Regards,

todd