Steve,
Not sure if this is related, but I had a similar problem (can't remember the exact error message). I copied the contents of the CD to my harddisk and installed from there. This solved the problem. This was with the downloaded version from MSDN but it may help in your case, too.
HTH
>I just got VFP7. I started tge installation, and it first updated
>windows components.
>
>Next I started the VFP 7 install. It got part of the way through
>then prompted me with:
>
>"Please insert the disk: Visual FoxPro 7.0 Professional -
>English Disk 1"
>
>
>The only install CD that came with it is the one VFP 7.0
>CD I'm trying to install with.
>
>What's this other disk? What is going on here?
>
>Thanks
Daniel