I worked for 13 years in IT support in a UK university, including supporting Apollo workstations running unix, so I expect I've a good deal more 'accredited prior learning' than many a NIT newbie. But it still took me many hours (over two days) of painstaking research, piecing together fragmented clues with educated guesswork, correcting for superceded info, and filtering out red herrings, to FINALLY discover the solution. Which leaves me wondering, did I just encounter an atypically convoluted conundrum? Or is this kind of arcane puzzle par for the course when trying 'simple' app installations under OS2008?