Sequence of events:
1. Get new nokia phone
2. Install PC suite, works fine
3. Find out there's an update to the pc suite, apply it
4. Find out that now I can't install jar/sis apps by double clicking them and letting the file association take over. I needed to do it manually by transferring to my phone. Big deal, I thought, and I lived with it.
5. Find out there's another update to PC suite and the changelog states it fixed a problem with automated installation of apps
6. "ah, good" I think
7. Attempt to install pc suite. Fails.
8. Uninstall PC suite, attempt clean installation. Fails
9. Uninstall PC suite, empty Nokia folder in Program Files, reboot, attempt installation. Fails.
10. Post on msghelp.net
I've tried googling the error and some otherr people are experiencing the same thing but no one has posted a response in the forum threads where they posted. I tried finding out how to fix that generic error message and came across a kbid on microsoft.com but that only applied to Windows 2000.