>I looked into the setup32.stf file and think I figured out that it has something to do with the OlePro32.dll and oleaut32.dll files. I notices that those files in my windows/system directory were a different version than those in my distrib.src/system directory so copyied the more current ones (windows) to the distrib dir. After re deleteing all the files named previously and rebuilding, I still got the same error.
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>Do you remember anything peculiar about those files and that message?
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>Also I couldn't see anything that would be a problem with the drive location.

Do you have SP3? That seems to have caused a similar problem...according to a previous thread (I was involved in it a little :), you can try looking at this:

...the wizsetup error 825 bug has been solved. Andrew Coates (a.coates@unsw.edu.au) discovered that the setup32.stf file included references to OLEPRO32.DLL and OLEAUT32.DLL that were missing from the [SYSTEM] section of setup.inf. Adding the following two lines fixed the problem; * the following two line must be added to the [System] shown above in the setup.inf file
"Olepro32Dll"=1,OLEPRO32.DL_,,,,1997-05-19,,1033,OLDER,!READONLY,,OLEPRO32.DLL,,,!SHARED,174592,!SYSTEM,,,5.0.0.344,VITAL
"Oleaut32Dll"=1,OLEAUT32.DL_,,,,1997-05-19,,1033,OLDER,!READONLY,,OLEAUT32.DLL,,,!SHARED,174592,!SYSTEM,,,5.0.0.344,VITAL