Windows media centre 2005

hi everyone
i've just completed my 1st self build and i am having problems installing windows media centre 2005,
pc specs are coolermaster cavalier case, 450w psu, msi k8n neo platinum socket 754(nvidia nforce 3 250gb), athlon64 3000+, connect 3d 9600xt all in wonder, 200 gb sata, floppy drive and craetive audigy 2zs ( not installed yet), 512 ddr
when i run set-up everything seems fine, it lets me install the sata and nvidia drivers and patition the hard drive but during 'copying files to system' it keeps coming up with various .dll files which cannot be copied (kerberos,winscard,devmgr etc) and when the system reboots to hard drive it just hangs out for a while during installing windows or comes up with error-box stating 'could not find ________ file in directory.
is there a patch or something i need to solve this problem and if so where can i get it?
any help would be much appreciated

I dont have Windows XP Media Center Edition myself, and just for curiosity i checked from microsoft what it is like... and they say this:
Quote
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is a Windows XP operating system available only on Media Center personal computers. Because of their special hardware feature requirements, Media Center PCs running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 are available only from Microsoft PC manufacturer partners.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/upgrade/default.mspx
So are you sure your PC is suitable for Media Center PC?

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