Multiple Office 2007 Products, One Install Source

[FarmerPete]

Here is my basic situation. I have a lot of different Office 2007 products that my company uses. There are a grand total of 9 different installs that we could run, and I've found keeping them all separate seems to be a serious waste of disk space. I use Microsoft Deployment Tool, and I saw that you can import multiple office apps and combine them. I went ahead and did that, and I now have all of my Office 2007 programs in the same folder. The trick is...how do you install just one app? A typical install would go something like throwing Office 2007 Standard on, and then adding any one of a number of standalone apps (Access/Visio/Publisher/OneNote). However, some systems may have Office 2003 installed, and then a 2007 version of a standalone product. I tried making a custom MSP for each version I wanted, but when you point to the msp file for the 2nd install, it doesn't seem to like it. So I've been trying to configure it using config.xml files (which we have to use for our OEM Office installs anyways). Here is a list of the products we currently install:

2007 Standard (Word/Excel/Powerpoint)

2007 Basic (OEM Word/Excel)

2007 OneNote

2007 OneNote (OEM)

2007 Access

2007 PowerPoint

2007 Publisher

2007 Visio Standard

2007 Visio Professional

Just in case you are wondering what I am attempting to gain from this consolidation, the main programs have very little overlap, but it's primarily the updates I am trying to consolidate. Each one has to have SP1 in the updates folder, and that equals 9x250=2.250gb of data. I don't personally think it's wise to waste that much disk usage if I can easily get away from it. Anyone have any ideas/thoughts? My big concern is overlap and how do you set a product to absent in one config, and then present in the next. What happens if the installs happen in a different order? What if PowerPoint 2007 was installed on a system, and then Office 2007 Basic gets thrown on (which has PowerPoint set to false to stop the trial version from being installed)?