George,

I have had to rebuild my Win2000 box several times and have had the same problem as you have had. To get around it, I went to MS site and installed the SOAP SDK from there. That seemed to fix everything.

Hope this helps!

Dave :-)

>Hi Gang,
>
>I'm setting up a new box and when it came to installing VFP 8.0, a problem >cropped up. It seems that something is amiss. The SOAP 3.0 SDK won't >install either from the VFP setup or by double clicking the MSI file.
>
>Some particulars: