>After almost three hours on the phone to MS, the only solution was to download Visual Studio Installer 1.1, and the VFP component for it. That worked. Actually, it is a pretty cool tool, much nicer than the VFP setup wizard.

I would've been fairly surprised if they could've quickly solved it, short of telling you to reinstall a lot of things, I think it may be a fairly deep problem. Your solution sounds good, I'll have to check out the Installer myself.