Tegumiril

Hi, I'm a newcomer to the SHS community, and was just getting started trying new mods, and megamod installations. After a few failures, I finally gritted my teeth, looked up a guide, and started to go through the motions. I decided after downloading all of the mods that it would be a good idea to uninstall and then re-install BG1 & ToTSC, as well as BG2 & TOB. Boy was I wrong. The Re-installation of BG1 and the expansion went off beautifully, I tested them as proscribed by the guide, and went on to uninstall SOA/TOB.

This is when trouble struck. I uninstalled TOB without any problems. I tried to uninstall SOA, and the uninstallation hit an error and shut down. "No Problem" I thought, I deleted the files, and went to run the setup manually from the CD. Upon doing so, I get Error Number: 0x80040707. I googled this error and found out nothing much other than there appear to be no solutions for Vista, and that its been killing SOA installs and crushing player's dreams for some time now.

I did pretty much everything I could think of, I updated the Installshield engine, I cleaned out the installshield information directories for SOA, I deleted all registry entries associated with the SOA installation. Still no luck, that pesky error kept popping up. I went for scorched earth. I uninstalled everything by black isle and bioware, deleted all of the files, emptied the recycle bin, and went through and did an even more thourough purge of the registry. That didnt work either, I still have that error.

"Hmm, back to square 1" I figured. So I did a system restore. No joy, the restore had some error (Unspecified of course -- thank you Microsoft) that prevented it from working. (I wonder if that had to do with me eating registry entries, heh...)

I tried the restore again from its furthest point in the past, and again, no luck.

I've finally managed to convince the computer and the SOA Autoplay thingy that SOA is *not* in fact installed. But every time I try to install it, I still get that "Error Number: 0x80040707"

As the title of the post says, I'm pretty much at my wit's end. I would rather not have to abandon SOA again untill I get another newer computer some years in the future, but I'm not sure how to resolve this error. Can you guys help?