I am trying to roll out Office 2003 using an MST file - deployed from System
Center Essentials. The installation is successful on the workstation, and
SCE reports the installation as successful. However upon reboot the
workstation says that it needs the Office install again.

I pretty much accepted the defaults in creating the MST file using the
Resource Kit's Custom Installation Wizard. I did make a few changes to the
product features, but that's about it.

Initially I did have the MST configured to remove any prior versions of
Office but suspected that this could be part of my problem so I removed it.
No change in behavior.

Any ideas? I can provide any additional information necessary.