Well I've managed to get it installed. I'm using a Windows Server 2003 image (under virtual server R2). I disabled as many services as I could.
It is very odd. Over two days of trying with 2003 Server it would magically start working (the install dialog coming up rather than crashing) late in the afternoon after 5pm local time. Yes very odd.
However I got caught at the second stage where you have to reboot and run setup.exe again - it wouldn't work. I had already turned as many services off as I could. I then tried disabling the network interface and the installer magically worked!!
It has taken me days to get this far, I've tried Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and XP images - I eventually gave up with 2000 & XP I'd updated the Windows Installers. I seemed to be able to get furthest with 2003 Server and then it just started working!
There is something very wrong with the BES installer.
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