New developments. I am still having the same problem, but here is the latest..

I installed a brand new hard drive and a clean install of Win2000. My previous drive had an upgrade from Win98 to Win2K and I thought THAT may have been part of the problem. This time it was a brand new, fresh install, complete with Service Pack 2.

I still get the exact same symptoms when trying to install to v2.0b.

Ugh!