Items to be included to deploy

Well let's just leave it at this: I know you're trying to help people and have worked hard at it and had great success. I'd never question that.

I'm merely suggesting that whenever people write new programs and have the luxury of supporting only Win2K and later they avoid as much deprecated technology as possible and target Jet 4.0 and MDAC 2.5. This gives them an excellent chance that their programs will work on any such system that doesn't have a totally broken MDAC installation without the need to worry about MDAC deployment at all.

Anyone doing something outside these confines (deploying to Win95, or using Jet 3.5, etc.) will require the assistance of a tool like the one you provide or else a very carefully constructed installation package. Of course they do still need to be careful in using it, as you suggest.