>>>I finally got my copy of Visual Studio and started to try to install it. I spent an hour or two clearing off 900MB from one of my partitions (bye, bye "Unreal"). I cleared another 100 MB off my C: drive, then started the install.
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>>> It immediately complained about a 64K key limit in the registry. Great. So I removed a few more programs, and deleted a bunch of old entries from the SharedDLL key. Tried installing again, same message. I decide to try it anyways, and I shortened the install directories to E:\VS\Cm
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>Hi, Ed..
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>About your full installation, did you install help files? I couldn't put them into my machine (I used 3 CDs).

Yep - the whole thing. The MSDN help files ended up being written to my D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MSDN98 directory, where it's eating 827MB on an NTFS partition. Makes life much easier, since I'm not fumbling about to change CDs all the time. The only things I did not put on were the samples from MSDN documentation, which still reference the CD the first time they're needed; they unpack onto the partition with Studio when I ask for them.