I cannot install Microsoft Expression Blend 2. If you look here, you'll see that lots of other people can't either. The problem seems to occur if you had installed and then uninstalled a pre-release version of Blend - it hoses up future attempts to install later versions. I even read about one dev who just wanted to reinstall the product to try and fix an Intellisense issue, but the installer wouldn't even let him do that.
I did, however, get it to install in a pristine virtual machine. But lo, I needed to upgrade to Blend 2 SP1 to get the latest Silverlight 2 support. And to do that, I had to install the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 update.
The screenshot below shows what happened next. This is the most bizarre frustrating thing. Can you tell what's messed up about this picture?
That's right, the installer is telling me that it can't continue until I close... the installer!
