I've been detailing my travails while trying to install the Visual Studio 2008 Feature Pack on my home development system. I've been detailing the work in my wiki, trying to determine why I am getting a failure dialog. As it turns out, I was having a "senior" moment. Embarrassing as it is...

I definitely qualify as a moron. I was tracing through the "About Info" on my wiki for my home system, and I followed the link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945273 listed at the bottom of the report. It turns on the Feature Pack is installed on my system. Somedays I am more dumb than other days. At least I didn't cause any traffic accidents on the way to work. 

I came across this interesting article on installation problems: Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Setup & Deployment Issues. As it turns out, none of this stuff applied to me. Why you ask? Because the Feature Pack is already installed!

The more I study this issue, the more confused I become about the state of C++ in VC 2008. There are now hot fixes, service packs and KB releases that need to be tracked for multiple installed versions of VS 2008. No wonder I am confused about the installation status...