Its never been the case with an Office Upgrade installation, that it
requires the qualifying version to be installed.
You simply need the earlier cd available during the upgrade installation

"Jeff Strickland" wrote in message
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I was doing an upgrade from Office Pro '03 to '07, and hit an error calling
for C:\TEMP\SKU011.CAB. The CAB was not anywhere on the machine so I copied
the file from another machine to the TEMP folder, then another CAB, then
another.

I'm not sure where the files went, but I had them on another machine so I
copied the entire folder from one machine to the other, and the upgrade
finished okay.

It ran a bit on the slow side, but I'm thinking this is a hardware issue
not a file location issue.

It's a bit of a pain to have the qualified base for an upgrade installed
and running, and have the Installation Support Files missing. It seems
that one must REINSTALL the qualified base to ensure the files are in
place to support the Upgrade. Why would MSoft assume that people would
keep CAB files after an aplication is installed and running? If a file
inside of a CAB is needed, then it ought to be installed already, not
extracted from the CAB during an Upgrade.

MSoft must hate its customers. On the other hand, I could have made $150
to install the upgrade if this was a paying customer instead of a family
member.