Software Deployment

Been hitting a brick wall on this one, so wondering what you guys think. I have an application I'm transforming (it's an MSI extracted from installshield setup) which I can install fine with the ISSETUPDRIVEN=1 property. It's a very small application (might even be a home grown app) with only 15 files or so...no registry entries, no custom actions, nothing fancy.

Only issue is that the application requires the comdlg32.ocx installed (which the installer didn't provide) so in my MST, I add the merge module thinking I was done with it...jokes on me. When trying to install this msi with my created MST, I'm getting:

Error 1309. Error reading from file:
c:\temp\windows\system32\redist\ms\system\comdlg32.ocx

c:\temp is my working directory at the moment. In viewing the log file, for some odd reason, the comdlg32.ocx file is showing up as "uncompressed" and thus it searches for it in the above path and I keep wracking my brain to figure out why it thinks this file is uncompressed...

Here's the piece of the log:

MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:953]: Executing op: FileCopy(SourceName=comdlg32.ocx,SourceCabKey=Global_Controls_Comdlg32ocx_f0.576D64B0_7413_11D2_B954_006097C4DE24,DestName=comdlg32.ocx,Attributes=0,FileSize=152848,PerTick=32768,,VerifyMedia=1,,,,,CheckCRC=0,Version=6.1.97.82,Language=1033,InstallMode=58982400,,,,,,,)
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:953]: File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx; To be installed; Won't patch; No existing file
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:953]: Source for file 'comdlg32.ocx' is uncompressed, at 'C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\'.
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 1309 2: 3 3: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 1309 2: 3 3: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 1309 2: 3 3: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 1309 2: 3 3: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 1309 2: 3 3: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 2318 2: C:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:33:968]: Note: 1: 1309 2: 3 3: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx
MSI (c) (28:14) [10:55:33:968]: Font created. Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font: Req=MS Shell Dlg, Ret=MS Shell Dlg
MSI (s) (50:94) [10:55:36:578]: Product: APYWIN 2.1 -- Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\temp\Windows\System32\Redist\MS\System\comdlg32.ocx. System error 3. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.


I tried this same setup by creating a generic MSI and applying a transform to it including this same merge module and it worked fine (it shows up as "compressed")...an ideas?

Thx,
J

Edit: If I was to modify the MSI directly (yep, I know) it works fine with the updated merge module. Also, I can very easily repackage this thing since it's tiny but I would really like to figure out what's going on. Lastly, as previously stated, the MSI was extracted from installshield setup.exe but the MST I'm creating is through Wise Package Studio....which I don't recall ever having this kind of problem before, but you never know!