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Any help, guidance, advice, and/or marriage offers will be entertained and appreciated (just kidding on that last one). Thanks in advance!

Mark

«Billybogs, thanks...» In fact, I found this answer even very late last night and had not yet had the opportunity to post my resolution. After trying FixIt after FixIt and even deployment of the tool was updated to Vista system, I still was getting messages from Windows Update saying that my system is up to date. Then I got the great idea to download and manually install SP2 - as I had also had to do with SP1 somehow. And sho' enough that did the trick. So thank you for the answer you provided - it was the same answer that I myself had discovered late last night. Thanks again!

You should be able to get SP2 from here: -.

http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=16468

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