Office 2K3 silent install?

[[BM]Crusher]

I followed the guide on MSFN unattended guide...

I don't have a setuppls.exe so I can't do an admin installation (I tried running setup.exe /a but after it started it error'd saying that i don't have a volume license office cd)

I can't find setuppls.exe anywhere (even though someone else said it is available from microsoft download centre)... I have been searching google and microsoft for the last 30 minutes...

I used the office 2003 admin toolkit thingy to create my Unattend.MST file...

I run it via RunOnceEx...

It comes up on the screen and says its preparing installation etc... it almost looks like it's going to work... after a while though, it dissapears off the screen without any error message, but office isn't installed?

Is it because I don't have setuppls.exe therefore no admin share? i used the office shrinker to reduce the size of the source...

[[BM]Crusher]

oh yeah.. .and when i use officeshrink.exe after a while an error comes up:

Quiet-Mode installation is only supported in enterprise versions of microsoft office 2003

[[BM]Crusher]

and also, i just noticed... about 15 minutes now since the error came up saying only blah blah version can silent install...

i checked my processes list and shrinkoffice.exe is still running! using over 70% cpu usage, and 6mb of ram

should it still be running after all this time?