any patches / options / whatever set when integrating with nlite? i find it pretty unlikely that the clean source i've been using for a while should fail all of a sudden (it's on my hdd, so scratches are

if you can find the time to integrate just this pack and nothing else into a clean xp source, i'd be most eager to learn of your results. do remember that the error only happens at the end, during the 'saving settings' stage, and it's not apparent (except that setup wouldn't go any further).
I personally had to replace setup.exe with nu2menu.exe just to be able to start notepad and task manager.
To be honest, I didn't burn a CD and test that way - but experience has taught me that VMware Workstation is accurate enough to trust with everything except timings. Timings should not be a problem with regards to windows setup itself, I think.
If you don't find anything wrong, then I guess I'll just have to use the Integrator, diff its output against nLite's, and report.
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P.S. Bug report (kinda): ieframe.dll.mui still has a full name in version 2.0.2 of the pack, unlike all others. Not exactly a bug, since fixing it does not change the results.