I think my basic misunderstanding (which isn't helped by Microsoft's poor documentation) is that a VLK installation comes with discs for that express purpose. I had asked our office manager for the volume license, and this didn't work. I then checked to see if the license came with discs, and found out it did.

So that's the story. I think that to avoid too many problems, I'm going to start from scratch (crud) with the new CD.

Thanks for your help. I feel that my vent above still applies. I explained my situation clearly enough to enough people that at least one of them should have been able to help me out.

Anyway, sorry for venting. I'm under pressure to get this prepared, I have to reinstall everything now, and then I have to manually install 73 printers. Wonderfull.