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Please help.

Windows Update keeps reporting that Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Update is not installed.

When I go to WindowsUpdate at...

http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

...I check for updates and it always says that the "Software, Optional" update

"Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB976569)"

...is available for install.

I select it, ...

...I install it, ...

...the page says the install is done and successful, ... 

...I reboot, ...

...I return to WindowsUpdate, ...

...I check for updates again, ...

...and the Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 is stil there.

I have also tried downloading the actual update from...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b2c0358-915b-4eb5-9b1d-10e506da9d0f&displaylang=en

...and when I try to install the installer says it is already installed.

The silly system tray icon saying "updates are ready to be installed" is also ever-present, with the same dead effects.

At logoff, the system also has the "install updates and then shutdown" option ever-available and that too does not work.

I am developing using Framework 3.5 and it seems fine.

How can all this be fixed?

Please advise.

Thank you.

-- Mark Kamoski