Problem installing Office 97 Professional SR2b patch in Vista

QUESTIONS:
1. Has anyone figured out how to successfully install the Office 97
Pro Service Release 2 patch in Vista?
2. Has anyone successfully installed an Office 97 Pro CD (SR2
version) in Vista?


DETAILS:
My setup: Dell Inspiron notebook with Vista Business edition
My CD: Office 97 Professional (Service Release 1) Upgrade

I had no problems installing from the Office 97 CD. I ran the
setup.exe file on the CD "as administrator" with no errors.

When I tried to install Service Release 2b (SR2b) patch (again, as
administrator), the installation failed. Scanning the SR2b
installation log, I noticed the following lines that indicated
problems.

At the end of the "Access bucket file copy starts" section are the
lines:

* Move C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf to C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp
* Unable to open C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf
* sr2 patch fail

Under the following "Back up has started...." section are the lines:

* deleted C:\Windows\Fonts\tahoma.ttf
* unable to restore C:\Windows\Fonts\sr1E639.tmp to C:\Windows\Fonts
\tahoma.ttf
* Backup has finished.
* The patch has rollback the file copy due to either user cancelation
or problem w/ file copy. Your system has been restored to its orginal
state. If you did not cancel the file copy, please contact Microsoft
Technical Support to upgrade to Office 97 SR2.
* The sr2 patch has failed


UPGRADING TO A NEWER VERSION OF ACCESS: I understand that some will
suggest that we "buy a newer version". Besides the huge financial
investment required to upgrade all of our workstations (both hardware
and software/licenses), there's the multiple conversion steps involved
with moving our many Access projects to the newest versions (97 to
2000/2002/2003 then to 2007).
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1dce641e-ba1c-446a-8ff2-221769a58ba51033.mspx?mfr=true)
I've also read that the later versions of Access are more buggy and
slower than the 97 version.

Office 97 meets our needs and has been working great. I just hope I
can get it to work in Vista (fingers crossed).

.

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