Question about Power Point 98 Viewer?

[Raven]

I need to view a PowerPoint presentation file and I don't have PPt. So, I downloaded PowerPoint 98 Viewer from  Mactopia. Looked like it should do the job, but...

When I double click Viewer to launch it, a message tells me that it "needs to copy files to System Folder... " to work. I click - Continue. Then it seems to load a bunch of files, the computer reboots, and I am back to the same place where I started.
When I double click PPt Viewer again to launch it, I get the same message as before

Any idea how do I make the Viewer work?

G4/400, 384mb RAM, OS9.1

[Lee]

Look inside your extensions folder for a folder named MS Library.

See if the first run program added these items.

MS Container Lib (PPC)
MS Internet Library (PPC)
MS Preferences Library PPC
MS Variant Lib (PPC)

[Lee]

hehe,

I launched OE and its first run installer launched and trashed those four items.

I can manually put them back when I want the PP viewer, then remove them before launching OE.

If not, the first run installers keep battling it out.

MS doesn't like itself.

I tried putting the libs in the app folder - no help.

I'm off to look at OE updates.

[Dreambird]

I use the same free PowerPoint Viewer and have the same files in my extensions folder as Lee mentions... and it runs fine. This is under OS9.1 and I don't use OE, so if they have a conflict with each other...  

I also find that when I run the PPT Viewer it sticks three files in my preferences folder which are more of an annoyance than anything else... I can delete them and they come back everytime I view a PPT slideshow:

MS Internet Cache
Microsoft Office Settings
Office Registration Cache

The Internet Cache rots my socks a little...    because it's a 5mb file and I hate to waste space on stuff like that on a 10GB HD.

In fact if someone has any ideas on how to write an AppleScript to trash those after shutting down the program or on reboot... I'd be most grateful.

[Raven]

I have these in my Exptension folder -  MS Component Library, MS Framework,  MS Hyperlink Library, MS Internet Library, MS Ole Library, MS Structured Storage.Are they the same or different? Yes!?

I created a new set of Extensions with the Mac Base plus the extensions mentioned above. Powerpoint works for me when I do it that way.

Any idea what is going on here? Is PPt conflicting with some other 3rd party extensions when I tried it the first time? Thanks for your help. :-)