Microsoft Update won't install.

[bizzybody]

My sister's laptop with Vista Ultimate SP1 will not install Microsoft Update so it can download Office 2003 updates.

My laptop, same model, same OS, all current updates exactly the same and exact same custom install of Office 2003- Microsoft Update installed just fine.

She's always installing those $#W^$^ing Google and Yahoo and MyPoints and other toolbars and things like WeatherBug (finally got her to quit that one, but has one from The Weather Channel).

I tried uninstalling all that cruft but MS Update still refuses to get past the step where it's supposed to download. It appears to be some ActiveX issue, but of course the link on the failure page is not helpful.