Skype installation error 1603

Hello, 8 days ago skype started to malfunction on my laptop and I get this error and it says "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed." and this happens when I click to open the program, I also unistalled then reinstalled the program and I get to errors and it says "Object already exists." and the second error I get says "Installing Skype failed, code 1603 A fatal error occured during installation" I tried everything I can to resolve this error from Google then youtube. Please help me!

The "Object already exists" error message is known to be caused by the recent Windows Security update KB2918614. Due to changes this update made to Windows Installer, not only Skype, but also several other updates (e.g. Adobe Reader, Java and even updates for Sophos Antivirus) may suffer from this behaviour. Uninstalling this update will rectify the issue, and this update can always be subsequently reinstalled (when the affected application is successfully installed/updated).
Try to uninstall this Windows Security update KB2918614.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/remove-update#1TC=windows-7
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/Object-Already-Exists-When-Installing-Error-160...
Remember to reboot your computer after uninstalling this update.
After uninstalling this update try again to install Skype.
You can also try this automated procedure:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/when-was-go-for-install-it-s-show-me-keyset-was...

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Next retry in 120 minute(s)... 8/20/2009 11:52:38 PM
I'm having trouble locating a windows installer log. The %temp% folder would be in docs&settings\userid\local settings\temp, I would assume and I've looked through the folders for the acct that is doing the client install as well as all the other acct folders and can't seem to locate any logs with a current date/time stamp. Any idea where I would look?
Also, BTW, I reinstalled MSI 4.5 before I did this last client installation, but I did it remotely/silently, so no prompts or data returned... I just found the errors below in the \windows\KB942288-v3.log file... might be related?
4.140: 2009/08/20 23:44:40.146 (local)
4.140: e:\6c0499dd2b70eebd34aa8b8c33\UPDATE\update.exe (version 6.3.13.0)
4.172: Hotfix started with following command line: /quiet /norestart
4.187: In Function GetReleaseSet, line 1240, RegQueryValueEx failed with error 0x2
8.578: In Function TestVolatileFlag, line 11825, RegOpenKeyEx failed with error 0x2
8.578: In Function TestVolatileFlag, line 11857, RegOpenKeyEx failed with error 0x2
8.578: DoInstallation: CleanPFR failed: 0x2
8.593: In Function GetReleaseSet, line 1240, RegQueryValueEx failed with error 0x2
8.593: SetProductTypes: InfProductBuildType=BuildType.IP
8.593: SetAltOsLoaderPath: No section uses DirId 65701; done.
8.718: DoInstallation: FetchSourceURL for e:\6c0499dd2b70eebd34aa8b8c33\update\update_SP3QFE.inf failed
8.718: CreateUninstall = 0,Directory = C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB942288-v3$
8.718: LoadFileQueues: UpdSpGetSourceFileLocation for halaacpi.dll failed: 0xe0000102
8.734: BuildCabinetManifest: update.url absent
8.750: Starting AnalyzeComponents
8.750: AnalyzePhaseZero used 0 ticks
8.750: No c:\windows\INF\updtblk.inf file.
8.750: OEM file scan used 0 ticks
10.812: AnalyzePhaseOne: used 2062 ticks
10.812: AnalyzeComponents: Hotpatch analysis disabled; skipping.
10.812: AnalyzeComponents: Hotpatching is disabled.
10.812: FindFirstFile c:\windows\$hf_mig$\*.*
16.500: AnalyzeForBranching used 0 ticks.
16.500: AnalyzePhaseTwo used 0 ticks
16.500: AnalyzePhaseThree used 0 ticks
16.500: AnalyzePhaseFive used 0 ticks
16.515: AnalyzePhaseSix used 15 ticks
16.515: AnalyzeComponents used 7765 ticks
16.515: Downloading 0 files
16.515: bPatchMode = FALSE
16.515: Inventory complete: ReturnStatus=0, 7797 ticks
16.515: Num Ticks for invent : 7797
16.547: VerifyTargetFileSize: Unable to verify size as Source = NULL for file c:\windows\inf\HFX269.tmp
16.578: Copied file: c:\windows\inf\branches.inf
38.625: Allocation size of drive C: is 4096 bytes, free space = 4751011840 bytes
38.625: Drive C: free 4530MB req: 5MB w/uninstall 0MB
38.625: CabinetBuild complete
38.625: Num Ticks for Cabinet build : 22110
38.625: DynamicStrings section not defined or empty.
38.656: FileInUse:: Detection disabled.
38.656: FileInUse:: Add to list - Service Name: msiserver
39.656: LoadFileQueues: UpdSpGetSourceFileLocation for halaacpi.dll failed: 0xe0000102
40.015: Copied file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\spmsg.dll
40.125: PFE2: Not avoiding Per File Exceptions.
41.734: DoInstallation: Installing assemblies with source root path: e:\6c0499dd2b70eebd34aa8b8c33\
41.734: Num Ticks for Copying files : 3109
41.812: Num Ticks for Reg update and deleting 0 size files : 78
41.828: DoInstallation: ApplyAdminSystemAclsRecursive for c:\windows\$hf_mig$\KB942288-v3 failed; error=0x00000003
41.843: UpdateSpUpdSvcInf: Source [ProcessesToRunAfterReboot] section is empty; nothing to do.
43.187: RebootNecessary = 0,WizardInput = 1 , DontReboot = 1, ForceRestart = 0
Thanks again!! --Jo

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