Original Message:   Answered my own question - kinda...
I decided to take the commando approach and just did a new, clean install of winxp along with the updates and directx 9.0b. Game(s) are installing just fine as I type this, so whatever the heck was wrong seems to have gone into hiding.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions - and best of luck to anyone else who shared this problem.

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