Boot Camp V-2.1 will not install

Boot Camp installation of upgrade to Version 2.1 will not install. Can anyone help me?

Hi,
Probably this reply is in the wrong post, but I just registered to this forum. I had the same problem with upgrading Boot camp to 2.1. The MAC OSX I am running is in Dutch and my Windows XP version is English. I started all over again installing Windows from scratch on the Boot camp partition. But now I did not make any changes during setup when it comes to keyboard and language support. After installation I ran the Boot camp 2.0 software from the MAC OSX CD (now it suddenly appeared in English instead of Dutch the first time), rebooted the machine and then successfully installed the Boot camp 2.1 update!
As read on Internet here and there, the problem seems to occur when there is some kind of regional setting problem or other language incompatibility.
Hopefully it helps a little (although I was not happy doing it all over again).
Peter

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Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 2:
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