A few weeks ago, Christopher Vaugn from the IE7 dev deam contacted me asking me to update FreeTextBox to support IE7's new user agent string. After first, I was embarassed to know that I had coded it in such a way that it wasn't forward compatible, but then I realized that it's probably better to have FreeTextBox render a fully-functional downlevel TextArea rather than a rich editor that had broken JavaScript if IE7 changed somehow.

Yesterday, I downloaded my beta copy of IE7 from connect.microsoft.com (I'm still downloading Vista... 2.47 GB!!), so I could do actual testing on it before releasing a compatible version. But I got an error message on install,

"the data area passed to a system call is too small"

I have a really bad case of winrot and need to reinstall my machine, so I might need to rebuild before I can get it to work. If any one has any clues as to why the install doesn't work for me, I'd appreciate any help.