>I'm going to be building a commercial app using VB6. As far as the database is concerned - I'm not sure what the best choice would be - MSDE or Access2002.
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>My preference would be MSDE - simply because I've done a fair bit of SQL Server work lately. However, I'm not sure what that means for a distributed app - i.e. is the MSDE install (as part of an App install package) relatively painless to configure?
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>Any advice would be appreciated.

You can automate MSDE and your database deployment. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q231923
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q234626