Unable to install SP2

Recently, my motherboard (MSI) and/or CPU (AMD) went bad. It had been
running just fine with XP, and I had installed SP2 back when it was
released. (I transferred the hard drive to a back-up computer and used
it while I sourced new eqpt., so I believe the drive is fine.) I
purchased a new motherboard (MSI, again) and CPU (Intel, this time),
1GB memory, and a new 430 watt PSU. When I put everything together,
transferred the hard drive from my back-up computer back into this one,
and booted up---it wouldn't. I needed to do a Windows XP repair from
CD, and everything seemed to be fine. I did Windows Update, which
installed a number of hotfixes, security patches, etc., and then Update
brought up SP2. I tried it numerous times from Update, and received
the "Access is denied" message. Reading various forums, tech sites,
etc., I was pointed to MS Support document kb873148, about checking the
Setupapi.log to find an offending registry key, setting the permissions
correctly to "allow," then running Update again. I did this 9 times,
changing the permissions on each different key the log pointed to.
After all this, the bar graph showing the progress (before it aborted)
had barely moved. I did some more reading on forums, and found a
couple of people with this same problem who had downloaded the "IT
version" of SP2 from MS, then burned it to a CD and loaded it in Safe
Mode. This supposedly solved the problem. I tried that today, and no
change.

Does anyone know the answers to these questions, please:?
1. If I continue with the Setupapi log, changing permissions, and
trying it again, can someone tell me the total number of permissions
that are going to need to be changed? Am I almost 'there' with 9---or
is it going to be 109? (I don't know of a way to globally change
permissions, and I can't find a reference to anyone who has done
this---so I guess one doesn't exist.)
2. I'm about ready to reload Windows from CD and try a fresh start,
thinking that when I put SP2 on before (when it was released) it was
fine. But I can't decide if this would be worth trying, considering
that I would think when I did the Windows repair, it would be taking
the same information from the CD that I would use for a reinstall---so
what would be the difference? Whatever changed the permissions
(apparently) happened when I did the repair---and so why won't it
happen again if I do a full reinstall? Has anyone had this same
problem, and done a successful full reinstall and then loaded SP2?

I'm also experiencing some other flaky issues, such as having nothing
populated in my Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, and of all the
Windows Updates that installed before I tried SP2---50-some---all
installed correctly except MS Windows Installer. I tried this (also)
directly from the MS website, but no success. But I understand this is
part of SP2, so if I can get it installed, the Installer will be there
as well.

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

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