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>>The SP4 registered a change to a registry key value during its install process (yeah, I make sure to track things so I know what happened when they fall down go boom...) The distributed MDAC_TYP.EXE puked on me and said I already had the latest version (probably from a download last week) and refused to run on my 2K Pro box before I applied SP4,
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>W2K ships with MDAC 2.5, so no update is needed.

Thanks; I wasn't sure, because it did need to run on my Win98 test box before the install would run successfuly.