Hey there folks,
 After recently purchasing Empire at War I seem to have an issues. 
 After reinstalling Directx 9.0c, updating drives and cleaning out my Temporary Folder I still seem to be getting the following problem when attempting to install (note, other games install just fine).
 
 "An error (-5009 : 0x8002802b) has occurred while running the setup.
 Please make sure you have finished any previous setup and closed other applications. If the error still occurs, please contact your vendor: LucasArts.
 Error Details:
 Error Code: -5009 : 0x8002802b
 Error Information:
 >Ctor\ObjectWrapper.cpp (163)
 >Ctor\ObjectWrapper.cpp (391)
 >Kernel\Component.cpp (1163)
 >Kernel\CABFile.cpp (384)
 >SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (1526)
 pAPP:Star Wars Empire at War
 PVENDOR:LucasArts
 PGUID:99AE7207-8612-4DBA-A8F8-BAE5C633390D
 $11.0.0.28844
 @Windows XP Service Pack 2 (2600) IE 6.0.2900.2180"
 
 Cheers in advance.
  
 
  
  
    Hello everyone. 
 I thought I'd post the solution here. After a week of playing around with things it was figured out. 
 The solution is found here! (
http://community.installshield.com/showthread.php?p=320532#post320532)
  
 
  
  
    cool thanks for that. Glad you got it working
 
 DMUK