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Originally Posted by MetalOllie
However on the next screen where the options to select the components is, none of the components was selected by default.
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MetalOllie 
- thanks for letting us know you figured out what was happening. Are you saying the Features dialogue looked like this:
If so, that's bizarre, because that either means someone did this
or something/one scribbled on the relevant registry values.
I'd never clicked in the top drop down in the features dialogue before now. I wonder if this explains ArgentSun's problem.
By default the 'Trusted Installer' (msiexec) will use the settings from previous installs. If the install on demand option was 'set' msiexec.exe may want to compare the last download with the one being installed, to see if any new features were added or existing ones removed. - hence it was asking for the 2.9.msi.
That's a better rationale for storing the location of the last used .msi file in registry than my previous theory that it was only there to populate the Source column (which isn't normally displayed) of the Programs and Features list
Network and install on demand options are frequently used in corporate environments that manage their desktop environments centrally, often in conjunction with tools such as SMS and Tivoli.
BR