Alcohol120 - "...policies to prevent this install"

[mmarable]

Okay, I'm getting frustrated here.

I've installed Alcohol120 without problem up until now.

I have a "Lite" version of my unattended disk that fits on a CD (the full uses a DVD). The Alcohol installation works on that one.

I build the "Lite" CD version of my disk. Just WinXP Pro with SP2, built with XPCreate. It only installs a few applications, with Alcohol being the very first (installed using XPLode). This works great and installs without any problems.

I add to the "Lite" CD to build the "Full" DVD. I add Office 2003, Nero, I copy a bunch of files (wallpaper, icons, themes). Everything is installed using XPLode, but Alcohol is still the very first installation. The log for XPLode says that it executes, but it doesn't install. If I try to manually install it I get a Windows Installer error, "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."

I'm at a loss. I've tried the "Lite" CD and it has worked on 3 different machines, but the full DVD has the same problem on the two machines I have ti DVD drives on them.

I installed XP on a box and hand executed each install I had in XPLode. After each one I checked to see if I could run the installer for Alcohol, and it worked after each and every one.

I just don't get it. Something I'm adding to make the DVD is causing this, but I seem to be running in circles trying to find it.

Does anyone know where this preventative policy is set? If I can reverse it I at least have one way of getting around the problem.

Thanks

[MCT]

r u logged in as admin?

regards

[mmarable]

Some more info.

I've installed basically the same set of applications using an unattended DVD for quite some time. The last DVD works without any issues.

This is all that was added since the last version:

- "slipstreamed" in the ATA drivers for my card

- Added a custom Windows theme

- Edited the WINNTBBU.DLL file

Now the Lite CD has the theme and the edited setup screens, but the ATA drivers are not included. I thought that it might be the ATA drivers that are on the DVD and not the CD, but I used the DVD to install on a laptop at work that doesn't have the additional ATA card in it and it still has the poblem.

I'm tempted to pull the ATA drivers out of the DVD image and see if that works, but I can't do that until I get home tonight. It seems like a long-shot but I've run out of ideas after fighting this for the past 5 days.

[mmarable]

r u logged in as admin?

regards

Yes, I log in as a user created and added to the local admin group. I've even tried logging in using the actual Administrator's account and it still has the poblem.