>>Try to see if this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677622.aspx may be of help.
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>I removed other things in regards to SQL Server 2005 and that allowed the installation to proceed.
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>I do believe this installation package is really not good enough. We ran into the same situation with SQL Server 2005. We had to remove installed components. This should be done automatically by the installation package. There is also a lot of conflicts with those having SQL Server Express installed. There should be more verifications included to deal with that. Basically, it should be click, click and completed. lol

With a fresh installation is was almost click, click and click. Though I did install all prerequsites before attempting to install SQL Server.