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>No wise-cracks please. If you do not have an answer to this specific question, please do not respond, as you are discouraging another person from looking at this qusetion.
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Where did this come from? IMO, if more people respond, even if slightly off-topic, more people will be drawn to read your question. :)

And to address the other part of your post, like Wayne said, I don't think you can't solve this problem with VFP alone. At the simplest, you could just write a WSH script that checks for the existance of the runtimes on the client and copies them there if necessary. Of course different OS's have a different directory structure (c:\windows, c:\winnt, for example), so you have to account for that.