Hallo,
After having install problems on my vista64 home pc i had trouble with the installation on my xp machine at work too.
The installation seems to go through normally but the following problems appeared.
-Installation does bring up the checked items when finished which are the samples and the activation program.
-as i tried to start activate.exe manually it just happened nothing.
-as i looked in my .\sqlexpress server there were no sf tables created.
-after starting vs2005 it seems that the sf addin brings up a big red errorbox indicating that something is wrong.
My machine is german xp sp2.
The old installation went through without any problem.
I deinstalled it before installing the new one.
I deleted the old sf tables in the sql server manually.
So this weekend is just sad cause i wanted to touch your new baby
greets
Matt