Thanks nicholas_ong,
I appreciate that some Microsoft applications might be available as distinct, pre-built .msi's (the 2000 suite, for example) - but I'm guessing this isn't the case for the 97/98 apps. I have tried searching microsoft.com for complete lists of what is, and isn't available as an .msi with little luck. Success on a microsoft site, is after all, rather erratic (at best).
I have also used the 'Custom Installation Wizard' in the ORK to which you refer, but it by no means a comprehensive solution and the transform files are still going to need a lot of manipulation in the Tuner. Sigh... I guess...
1) Obtain the pre-built .msi's (where possible)
2) Use the ORK to create a standard .mst
3) Use Tuner to modify the transform
4) Install clean build WTS NT4 and snap it
5) Install the .msi with the transform
6) Repackage the WTS NT4
7) Import the .inc into Author
😎 Build the new .msi
9) Re-image the WTS NT4 and test the new .msi
Sadly, steps 6,7 and 8 will still be the achilles heal as they rely on InstallShield and will probably produce all the same errors we experienced when we started from scratch.
You know your career is at an end when you start being assigned tasks using this product... oh yes...
stillstuckinluton