It's a know problem installing VFP8 on Win2KSP4. See Error 1722 Occurs During Prerequisites Installation of Visual FoxPro 8.0 mskb #824850 for workaround.

>I just rebuilt a machine with a fresh install of Win-2000 SP4. I've also installed Office 2000, PVCS, VFP7, and InstallShield Professional.
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>When I try to install VFP8, the prerequisite installation of the SOAP component fails with the following from the error log:
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>[09/09/03,10:31:43] Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 3.0: CreateProcess launched with cmd line d:\wcu\RunProg.exe "d:\wcu\RunProg.exe" [winsys]msiexec.exe|/qn /i "[apppath]SOAP3\soapsdk.msi" REBOOT=ReallySuppress
>[09/09/03,10:31:48] Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 3.0: d:\wcu\RunProg.exe exited with return value 1603
>[09/09/03,10:31:49] Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 3.0: Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation.
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>What in the world is going on??
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>Laterness,
>Jon