Good news is that the automatic JRE installation seems to work 
 on XP, but we still need others to test it on other platforms.  For
some unknown reason the JRE installation kinda freezes at the end, but I
have seen that before when installing JREs so I suspect that it is more
sun's fault than ours - and hopefully it is something peculiar to my
machine.  I killed it, and the installation still seemed to proceed ok.
Still, it might be a good idea to install the JRE last.

A few UI suggestions:

Dialog boxes are still used in a number of places to ask the user 
questions, this really isn't in-keeping with the normal way that 
installation wizards get information from the user.

Typically, they will use radio buttons, and if they absolutely need to 
force the user to make a binary decision, they disable the Next button 
until the user has made their selection.  I think that we should use 
this approach.

I think a dialog box is only appropriate in extreme circumstances (such 
as an installation error), but should be avoided during the normal 
course of installation.

Ian.

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