>I've tried installing Visual Foxpro 8.0 Beta on a Windows 98SE machine, Windows 2000 SP2 clean install, and a Windows XP Pro SP1 machine and have administrative rights on all applicable machine, but it always unzips the archive and then I get the prerequisites screen. So I click that and it presents a progress bar and says it will list the prereq's but that's it. The installation of VFP or the prereq's never continues. I meet all the specs in the readme file.

Have you unzipped all of the Beta files into one directory and run the Setup from there? The main install screen has three items - prerequisites, the main install, and the updates (there aren't any now). You choose to install the prerequisites from that screen.