Just recently clients on our network running 2000 started acting up. Suddenly application shortcuts on the desktop would start the MSI installer trying to reinstall the app. Office XP in perticular. The MSI will error out. Errors would say no association for application…change association in control panel etc. Others would say “Outlook not installed on machine for this user, would you like to reinstall” then error out trying to install. All machines were working fine one minute then crap out the next. It’s not happening all at once either they are getting “hit” at random. If they try to open an excel file, same thing… it trys to install excel. We were wondering if there was an SMS update causing this problem but main headquarter support is baffled too. So far we have 10 affected PC’s and losing another every couple of hours or so. XP machines are not being affected. Has anyone seen this happen before? Currently reimaging is the only fix we have but how do we know if this problem will continue to perpetuate? Any help would be greatly appreciated.