not having much fun, but I’m going to persist with rebooting and trying again. working on the 210 build, problems i have encountered so far:

safari 4 – i gather this is a known issue, to do with either being in the new flat format, or because a preflight check fails to work inside the instadmg compilation process

InstallerChoices.xml i used for the main office install no longer works – i suspect i need to re-write it in the new format?

10.5.7 combo install is still messing up somewhere. Although I no longer get the ‘old Mail.app’ symptom – I’m still getting a persistent issue the main symptom of which is that Word crashes on launch. if i stay on 10.5.6 and install office all is well, but with the combo update in the install chain, word becomes unusable.

and it’s no longer installing the Office updates either 🙁 so i end up having to apply the SP1 (and now SP2) updates manually afterwards.

i’m going to try going back to the old 1.4b4 version and stay 10.5.6. has anyone tried the 10.5.7 delta? (i’ll give it a spin, but the only thing that depends on having 10.5.7 is safari4, so no big deal at the mo)

EDIT UPDATE
using the 10.5.7 delta in the install chain allowed me to also include the safari4 installer, and amazingly i ended up with a working Word. but Mail.app is back at v3.5 (10.5.6 version)