Speaking of skipping '09,,
I have all the '09 updates for our office supply of '06. I have loaded '09 four times, and have experienced four different sets of problems, except for the ribbon not loading (it never wants to load. I thought the problem was a .cui file, but that didn't seem to fix it on the latest install).
The problem I am experiencing now, is after installing '09, loading ars2009sp20, setting file paths, and assuring the same menus are loaded and in the same order, I have a .lsp routine that will not work on this one machine. I am probably missing something in my install (no, I didn't use a deployment, I installed from the disk). But I can't figure out how a lisp routine will run on three seats of '09, but not another?
Any ideas, or are there too many variables to assess?