Problems installing Office 2007 on Vista RTM

I have a clean installation of Vista RTM and am trying to install Office 2007.

The installation gets about a quarter of the way through when I get a folder
browser dialog stating "Setup cannot find Proofing.en-us\Proof.es\Proof.cab".

I can see the files on the disk, but when I point to the folder and click OK
I get a message box stating "Invalid location.". The installation will not
continue.

This is a brand new clean installation of Vista, and I am running as
Adminstrator. I am installing from an ISO (downloaded from MSDN) mounted in
Daemon Tools which I successfully used to install on this machine before I
flattened it to install Vista.

I have also tried copying all of the files to a folder on the hard disk and
running the installation from there, but the same thing happens.

I've seen similar issues reported with Office 2007 Beta 2 but as far as I
can see it relates to re-installing. This is the first time this has been
installed.

I have a similar issue. I have a clean Vista install, and when running
setup for Office 07, receive the following error:

Setup cannot continue because a required file is either corrupted or
not available. Run setup again from the original source disk or
download location.

Any help is appreciated.

You are trying to install Office RTM?
I'd try installing it by mapping the ISO directly instead of burning it
on a disk. See the digital signature entry on what I'd suggest you try.

He does mention that he's installing from the ISO, not the CD, though I
don't see why installing from CD (given that it's burned correctly) should
be a problem.

I totally overread that part...Thanks for pointing it out!
There have been issues related to digital signatures when people tried
to install from the CD that got resolved by installing from the ISO
directly.

The Proof.fr folder contained two files that did not match the hash values
assigned to them and validated in the setup.xml! This is why the setup
stops and prompts for the file, even when you point to the correct
subdirectory. Hopefully and new version will be posted on MSDN SOON

The Proof.fr folder contained two files that did not match the hash values
assigned to them and validated in the setup.xml! This is why the setup
stops and prompts for the file, even when you point to the correct
subdirectory.

Are you sure this is not a problem with a CD you burnt?
RTM installed without a problem here.

It may be a bad download. There was a small glitch in one that I downloaded.

What size are you showing when you right click on Proof.msi and Proof.cab in the Proof.fr folder? (those two file names are repeated
for each proofing language folder).

The file sizes matched exactly in the extracted Office 2007 RTM with those of the \Proofing.en-us as did the MD5 has values listed
in tht folder's setup.xml using MS's FCIV utility to check.

I recommend that you re-download the iso, and get Daemon Tools V4.06
(supports Vista) virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator. Be sure to create a restore
point *before* installing DT V4.06.

Then mount the iso image. That's what I did. It's worked great for me.

Thanks all for the suggestions. After trying a few things I decided the burn
the image onto a CD and that installed fine, therefore the original ISO is
fine. Whether this was a problem with the ISO in combination with Daemon
tools or a fault with my USB key (where I had the ISO image) I don't know.

[Adventures]

THE SOLUTION! I had this exact problem. After Googling several places, lots of people have had this problem. Install on Office 2007 hanging as it looks for the proof cab. Could not get past this, until I read to try cleaning the disk!! How simple is that and it worked first try after!!!! Seriously it worked! Try the easiest things first!!