Egads I hate Windows. And I don't just mean that in the typical Mac-zealot type way.
I finally came clean and got (well, AP got me) a copy of Visio, which I run via Virtual PC. It's not the best set up in the world (especially after seeing Todd run Windows on one monitor and OSX on another yesterday), but it does let me work with client files, and files from my PeopleSoft days.
So, this morning, without really thinking, I popped the new CD into the drive, booted up Vitural PC and started the install process. Once it was going, I realized that I was installing Visio 2003, the same version that I already had installed. I tried I don't know how many times to cancel the installation (it never told me 'hey bone head, you already have this installed') thinking that it would be easier to stop it and just enter my product ID into the current version.
Well, by the time I got the installer to stop, it had deleted the current version from my computer. So now I had no choice but to install again from the CD. The problem was, it no longer automatically detected the CD and I futzed with it to try to get it to install again. Only to have it tell me that it was already installing (really? where? I see no running program) and I had to quit. I ended up shutting down Windows and restarting it. It now seems to be installing correctly now, though I'm a bit wary of saying that for fear of jinxing it.
Meanwhile, while all this Visio drama is going on, I open iTunes. It tells me that there is a new version available. With one click I go to the Apple site, start the download. With a double-click and a few selections later the new iTunes is installed and up and running. So effortless!
*sigh* Thank goodness I work in a Mac shop. I don't think that I could go back to Windows on a regular basis if I had to. It just seems so... painful and pointless.
