Issue installing 1.4.2_08 on XP (error 1722 problem with Windows Installer)

First time poster guys, so be gentle.
I have installed this older package on 20+ PCs, but this one is kicking my arse. It makes it through the install and then at the very end puts up:
Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.
I have tried a TON of stuff including uninstalling, re-installing, editing the deployment.properties file, copying that file from a working PC, installing other versions (1.3.X and the latest one that downloads from the frontpage seem to work, but when I go to java.com and test to see if I have java installed, it just closes the browser). I ran it with logging turned on and got the following info.
+=== Logging started: 10/10/2007 13:10:15 ===+
Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.  Action fontchecker, location: C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_08\bin\, command: "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_08\\bin\javaw.exe" -XXsuppressExitMessage -jar -cp "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Update\Base Images\j2re1.4.2-b28\patch-j2re1.4.2_08-b03\\FontChecker.jar" "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Update\Base Images\j2re1.4.2-b28\patch-j2re1.4.2_08-b03\\FontChecker.jar" -o "C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_08\lib\fonts\\badfonts.txt" -w
+=== Logging stopped: 10/10/2007 13:10:51 ===+
The java_install.log says everything extracted and unpacked fine. The jupdate log says that everything worked and ends with:
INFO: Java(TM) Update (1.4.2_08-b03) has been installed successfully on this machine.
But yet I still get an error during the install of 1.4.2_08 and even if a different version LOOKS like it works, it still isn't really working because the java icon in control panel never works and if I go to java.com and test to see if I have java installed it closes the browser. I have also signed in as admin and updated to IE 7.0, so I don't think a permission or browser issue is the culprit. 3 hours of my life gone. Anyone got any ideas?

First you down load the windows inataller from the follwoing url
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cebbacd8-c094-4255-b702-de3bb768148f&displaylang=en
then you down load the offline installation package of j2sdk1.4 and install it
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html

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