> Success!
>
> I had severe narrow vision.
>
> I went through the registry, ran Procmon.exe, read the Installer logs, and then realized, as I should have initially... I was trying to load an "SP2 Patch of SP2", not just "SP2 Patch".
>
> Apologies to everyone for my goof.
>
> And thanks for guiding me out.
>
Well that's good to know you now have Sp2. So you can really test the GDI+x samples I posted to you.


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