Thanks guys, those are all good suggestions.

What you said about different versions of Win98 could be the case. I was using my own disc of Win98SE to install the thing.

I know there's different tricks you can use to make it use a certain directory, but I don't think this would have helped in this case. I think it just wasn't looking inside the cabs because it was asking for files that spanned several cab files, so it didn't seem to be looking inside those at all.

You could be right that it wasn't finding the ones it wanted, though. For instance, why is it that the first "netX.cab" is "net7.cab"? Then there's net8, net9., and net10. Why doesn't it start at net1?


But for future reference, what key do I need to edit to make Windows look in a folder on my disk drive for the cab files? And am I right in thinking that Win2LK already does something like this? I mean, I've never had to use my Win2K disc.

*edit*
one more thing. if this ever happens to me again, is there a way to search all the cab files for the file it needs? I couldn't find a way.