patch package error on install

[joel]

I am trying to reinstall office 2000 on my 98 machine.
Lighting power surge caused for the reinstall. When
running setup off the disk, it looks on the a: drive two
seperate times and then reads this error. "This patch
package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package
exisits and that you can access it, or contact the
application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows
Installer patch package." I then checked my Windows
Installer and it is the latest 2.0 version offered. Is
there a fix to this? Thanks!

 

[Andreas Roeder]

HI joel,
maybe this article could helps
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;295823

 

[joel]

I followed the reccomdation with the cleaner file and
tried reinstalling, but I still receive the same error.
Any other suggestions?