Completely at wit's end ...
 

If help is possible, I could sure use it. I think I've read (or at least perused for relevance) every thread in this forum.

I cannot get eq2map to work on my new comp (works like a charm on the old one - feel blind w/out it). Similarly (but not germane to this forum) I cannot get Advanced Combat Tracker to work, with similar errors and malfunctions.

Here's a synopsis of what I've done.

Built comp for gaming, Intel dual core 2.4 ghz on fatality MB w/4 gig corsair ram, velociraptor HD.

Installed Win XP Pro SP 2, let it update itself, DL Mozilla Firefox, DL McAfee antivirus, spybot and adaware. Install EQ2:KoS disc set, wait (and wait) while updates patch into old disc set.

No problems thusfar, EQ2 runs fine.

DL and install EQ2MAP ... I get a NET FRAMEWORK error ... DOT NET 2.0 seems to have been installed in either the original XP disc set or updates. I repair DOT NET with no errors, but get the same error with EQ2MAP. I uninstall EQ2MAP, re-DL, reinstall, etc. ... same error. I uninstall DOT NET Framework 2.0, re-DL and install. This time no DOT NET error, it just goes to the 'unrecoverable error' message and asks if I want to send MS the error log (heh ... uhm ... no).

I read related forums ... one suggested installing ver 1.1 in addition to 2.0, so I DL DOT NET Framework 1.1, try to install ... all is well until I get: "Error 1719. The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" (although other programs have seemingly installed using this already...).

More sleuthing ... Microsoft has a patch for the Installer, I DL, Install the intstaller patch (which oddly required stopping and restarting the install process), execute and try V 1.1 again.

"Error 1719 ....."

Amazingly I still have hair after all this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and if somehow I missed the Sticky thread with the solution, feel free to call me an idiot but PLEASE help.

Look through this, sounds like it may fix your problem, which should get dot net to install/work correctly

http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/...error/1719.htm

You can use EQ2 Henchman to install and update eq2map .NET not required.

This is just a shot in the dark, but I would try uninstalling NET 2.0. Then once it is uninstalled install 1.1, once 1.1 is in place, install/update NET 1.1 to 2.0. Maybe there is a file, or command, or something in 1.1 that, for whatever reason, wasn't included in the 2.0 package but is needed for EQ2map to function properly? It's possible I guess, and it couldn't hurt to try.