HA! I spoke too soon. I made the awful assumption that since I already had done a good install with PDW on the two XP machines that that would somehow equate to successful install using VSI. Getting all kinds of permission issues in Virtual PC in XP mode, even when I'm admin. Fonts won't install or system files.

It looks like VSI does not automatically NOT install a file if it already exists unless you put a phrase in the Condition property. Is that right, or is that just for more conditions you can add on to a default do-not-install-if-exists?

Anyway, need to get some sleep and then I'll check my real XP machine and see if the same thing happens there, although it's kind of comparing apples to oranges...That machine already has vb6 and all my fonts on it. The VM just has XP and nothing else.