Hey MacGyver, stick with the tools in the wilderness.. he he.. joke aside, i my self have found the MSFN unattended guides very usefull in the quest of what you have asked above.. for MS Office XP http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/47/ and for MS Office 2003: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/46/ home for the guides is: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/1/