Illegal Operation when Installing IE 5.5

[comteck]

I have gone onto several forums to try and find a solution to my problem. I have found several that discuss the following problem after the install of IE 5.0 and above:

"This Program has performed an illegal opreation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists , contact the program vendor"

My problem is that I get this message when I try to install IE 5.5 with SP2 onto a Windows 98 machine. The installation halts when it comes to the file called IE_S3.CAB, and the above message occurs. When I click on details, I get the following:

IE55_SP2 caused an exception c0000006H in module IE55_SP2.EXE at 016f:010043ff.
Registers:
EAX=00000018 CS=016f EIP=010043ff EFLGS=00010216
EBX=00008000 SS=0177 ESP=0062fef8 EBP=0062ff04
ECX=00000fc0 DS=0177 ESI=01b10000 FS=1b67
EDX=00008000 ES=0177 EDI=00404178 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 a5 8b cb 83 e1 03 f3 a4 01 90 4c b8 00 01 8b
Stack dump:
00500d28 00500510 00500cf4 0062ff24 01006bb9 00000001 00400078 00008000 00008000 00500510 00b20000 0062ff38 0100678c 00008000 00000000 00500510

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
comteck

[mjc]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=172133

After looking at several other links, it comes to the basic conclusion that the install media, usually CD is dirty/bad. Or general CD read erors.

How are you trying to install it? From the hard drive or a CD?

If from a CD can you successfully copy the IE install packge from it to the hard drive?

Have you tried to download (http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/5.5_SP2) it?

Is it from an ISP install CD?

[123456]

I assume you're on 95, hmmm? Or NT 4.0?

[rond36]

I get this message when I try to install IE 5.5 with SP2 onto a Windows 98 machine.
comteck is trying to install it on a Win 98 machine