>If you didn't notice already, i find the whole process as frustrating as you do.

It's nice to find someone who agrees with me. Even Microsoft appears to agree that they've created a MONSTER because the feature article in the January/February MSDN NEWS is "The End of DLL Hell". Unfortunately after reading it I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling that life will be a whole lot better.

The thing that aggrevates me about this whole registry thing is that I would rather not be the one that screws up the clients network. I prefer to leave that to the experts like AOL. Most of my clients can't spell intstall let alone registery. Therefore we are forced to develop a fool proof installation routine that registers everything we need on every computer on the network. I'm also pretty sure whatever we do it will have to be slightly different for 95 vs 98 vs NT vs 2000. I'm not bitchin' mind you but when one is paying the cost of development out of one's very small pockets, one gets very annoyed. I guess if I had $90 billion dollars to spend on development I wouldn't give a hoot.