It's bad enough that its footprint is the size of an entire CD (why, If you install everything, it's big, of course. The minimal subset to run LaTeX is comparable to OpenOffice (smaller, I think; I haven't checked recently).
proTeXt is intended to be simple to install. Evidently you want more flexibility, so as Thomas said, you should install from miktex.org and forget protext. We should make this clearer in various places, so thanks for the implicit bug report :). And then to even have to join a mailinglist for just this 1 question. You can post to this mailing list (and all TUG mailing lists) without subscribing to it. If there is somewhere that says you have to subscribe first, pleasr tell me. karl _______________________________________________ protext mailing list http://tug.org/protext/