Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Troubles: 2908 error

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After testing the SP1 RTM on my home machine (which I consider OKAY to scratch), I tried to install it on my work machine, where it is not okay for things to fail. I let it run all night, and it produced this error. Now attempting to re-install Web Application Projects (which I had to remove before) fails, VS without Web Applications is hosed.

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Here is the last part of the logs:

MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:479]: Executing op: ComponentRegister(ComponentId={544FDEE8-F34D-4EC0-A970-ABBF31A0BD9A},KeyPath=<\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.PerformanceWizard,Version="8.0.0.0",FileVersion="8.0.50727.42",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",Culture="neutral",ProcessorArchitecture="MSIL",State=3,,Disk=1,SharedDllRefCount=0,BinaryType=0)
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:479]: MSCOREE not loaded loading copy from system32
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Assembly Error:Function not defined in specified DLL.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Note: 1: 1935 2:  3: 0x8002802F 4:  5: CreateAssemblyNameObject 6: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.PerformanceWizard,Version="8.0.0.0",FileVersion="8.0.50727.42",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",Culture="neutral",ProcessorArchitecture="MSIL" MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:599]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:659]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:679]: Transforming table Error.
MSI (s) (94:20) [08:43:57:679]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
DEBUG: Error 2908:  Could not register component {544FDEE8-F34D-4EC0-A970-ABBF31A0BD9A}.
MSI (c) (D4:0C) [08:43:57:729]: Font created.  Charset: Req=0, Ret=0, Font: Req=, Ret=Arial

I found some information about it here, it is dated, but I think that I will give it a try.