.NET SDK Failed to Install!

[Lain]

I was installing the SDK and everything was going smoothly then suddenly it stopped with about 7 seconds left... I gave it a really long time to finish (3 hours) but nothing. I tried to cancel, but the thing froze up. I had to End Task and finally tried to reinstall. When I went to reinstall it it gave me an error message and wouldn't let the install continue. I checked the folder I saved it to and it seems to have everything... is it safe to assume everything is fine and just continue as is?

I'm running Windows 2000 Advanced Server and was running Zone Alarm at the time.

I'm not even sure if it's safe to reboot... I believe at the time it shut down it was registering system variables. I don't want to screw anything up. What should I do? It doesn't come up in Add/Remove for Programs or Windows components. SHould I delete the folder it was in and try again? But if I do that and it won't let me reinstall I will have no chance of using it unless I reformat... and... GAH! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lain]

got the sdk installed finally...

do i need sql on my computer to programs that use, the host i'm planning on using uses SQL 2000 so I'd like ot use that... is there a big advantage to SQL over Access?

[mosquito]

performance, performance, performance. That's the big advantage + the fact that you can create stored procedures and that SQL 2K can process xml on its own (.Net is fully xml based).