ok well now i have created a starwars.cmd with the appropriate cmds and have it called by WPI. its dependent of starwars and vice verce while ordered as second. secondly while before i had winnt.sif calling a batch.cmd that called wpi.hta.... i FINALLY noticed wpi.cmd (fluttery NooB feelings)... and rewrote my winnt to include that instead. I had to get rid of almost all of my silent installs cause acrobat was refusing to work even after using the install tuner adobe provides... and then i had to tell acrobat it was second in order to office xp... kept trying to walk all over office and then gave an error that an installation was already in progress please try again... so.... acrobat, and photoshop are no longer silent installs... and starwars didnt show any progress at all... i like /passive... but that wont work with starwars and it was taking too long.. so i reverted that from silent mode too. however... all in all everything is working now. The only thing i think WPI needs is a check that keeps the next installation from starting until the previous install is complete. it probably already has this... but if it does its not working with acrobat, acrobat reader, and adobe photoshop... or maybe i should be calling the .msi instead of the setup.exe. i dont know. thanks guys... and the thing with the progressbar was a windows thing... i used classic install theme so it looked like windows 2000 does during the GUI part of the install... during "windows is detecting and installing your devices" section was where the freeze would occur. however it seems to have fixed itself so no worries. and cd key removed... thanks...