On 31 Mar 2008 at 14:53, John W. Kennedy wrote:

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> I realize that the root cause is Microsoft's incompetence, and, in fact, 
> I plan to migrate to a Mac ASAP (Linux is out of the question, as one of 
> my requirements is Sibelius), but I'm not quite ready for that, yet, and 

There are freeware alternatives to Sibelius - depends what you need 
of course. Rosegarden for example has come on leaps and bounds 
lately, I believe. OT for this list though. 

BTW I believe you're not subscribed - you might like to consider 
doing this. http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for info.

Oh, depending on your confidence (& competence with XP, I have to 
say), it is possible to go through the registry and remove by hand 
all (well, "enough") references to particular installed software to 
do a full "uninstall". It's tedious, and /very/ fraught though. It 
looks like the only thing you haven't tried! Very definitely /NOT/ 
for the casual user - and very much a final kill-or-cure resort, and 
make sure you have a registry backup plus recovery disk handy just in 
case it goes pearshaped, which is quite likely.


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