I ran into yet another bug that requires a hotfix that you have to call Microsoft Product Support in order to get the hotfix itself. Tired of waiting around on the phone every time I need to get ahold of something that should be made readily available, I decided to put Google to work to see if I could find a place to download it. Lo and behold, you can download ALL of the hotfixes in one nice download.

I'm not sure if Softpedia opened up tickets with Microsoft for every post-SP2 hotfix or what but I'm just glad they are making them available. Here's the link to the download. It's just under 200MB and I am waiting for the download to finish so I can make sure the hotfix I am looking for is in there. (KB888254)

One word of advice, try the Romanian download mirror instead of the USA one. I was getting about 2.1 kb/sec on the US one (55 hour download!). The Romanian one is only going to take about 10 minutes.