When running the install package for 1.6.5, it gets past the 'Install Visual Studio Templates' step successfully, but each time it gets about 75% done with 'Build StrataFrame Databases' and I get an error which says "An error occurred while deploying the meta-data to the server.  Please help so that I can get the new version installed.  Thanks.

Are you running SQL Server 2000 or 2005? We starting using an extended property in this reelase, and though our research indicated that the fn_listextendedproperty was support in 2000 we did not actually setup a 2000 server for testing and only test on 2005 and above servers.  So my guess would be that you are on 2000 and this property is not supported.  Confirm this and we can go from there.