Re-install of Office 2000 not going well

[Zoey]

Office 2000 got messed up and I decided to do a reinstall since the
repair feature wasn't fixing the problem.

I did a complete un-install, deleted all the files that were left from
my system, removed all the orphan .dlls and then did a defrag.

The re-install appeared to go without any problems but on reboot I got
this message:

"This application must be installed to run. Please run setup from the
location where you originally installed the application."

I managed to find an alleged solution at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q233529
but I really can't figure what it is trying to say. Maybe my mind is
just so muddled after about 18 hours of trying to fix this that I can't
see the forest for the trees.

My system boots up as a muti-user system and I really would like to stop
that but I have been unable to. I've never set up any individual users
but when I boot the system boots in a user logged in and at the start
button you have logoff and shut down options.

My system is setup as a desktop and boots up as a windows system not a
Microsoft network.

Can anyone make any suggestion? I'm at my wits end.

Feel free to contact me at
billATteesideassociates.bizhosting.com
or just post your answer here.

TIA
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