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You were asking about how to create a setup to auto-include setup information for Office. This can be done, with an original Office setup disk. Once you have done this process, and included the file, it cannot be re-done from that new disk. Let me explain further.
There is what is called an 'administrative' installation mode. You can initiate this by actualling using 'run' and typing the path to your Office disk/setup folder followed by 'setup /a' (for administrative). For example. If you are installing from the original CD and your CD drive is the 'D:' drive, you would initiate the run command (under the Start menu) and type in " D:\SETUP.EXE /A ". This will open the setup program and begin to prompt you for information such as your company name, which files to include, which directories to install under, and low and behold, your product key. This then creates a file (I believe it is generally called proplus.msi or similar) which contains all of that data and is used to install Office with in successive installations.
For more information on this (I apologize if I have just made it sound more confusing here)... you can look at the instruction directly on Microsoft's website at the following address:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;283686Titled:
How to use command-line switches for Office XP setup
I know, it says XP, not 2000, but I believe they work about the same.
Hope this helps you with that part of your question.
