Trouble installing Boot Camp 2.1 - BCUpdateVista32.msp

I have had severe difficulty trying to install the Boot Camp update 2.1 onto my MacBook Pro 15. I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic 32.
When I run Apple Software Update, it downloads the file but when it runs it quickly displays the following message:
Boot Camp Installer Completed
The installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured
To retry these operations at a later time, please run the installer again.
Click finish to exit the installer.
An apple support page, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1845, advises running Command Prompt using administrator rights and typing the following:
msiexec /update <path to the .msp file>\BCUpdateVista32.msp
When I do this the response is "access denied."
I've also tried turning off User Account Controls in Vista and using .exe as the file extension (because that is how it downloaded). No luck.
Any Ideas???

Boot Camp is mix of services and control panels. There is no Assistant in Windows.
There is Apple OSSwitcher; Boot Camp control panel. And whether there was an update to all components to 2.1 - the only thing that matters: is there something not working?
If it isn't broke, don't fix it.
A number of people installed the UPDATE to SP3 w/o and before BC 2.1.
Some people have had trouble, only AFTER installed BC 2.1 (was fine before).

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