I don’t use vista very often although i have a brand new license and a machine ready and willing to take the plunge now, but i never encountered anything like that. Thanks for the note I’ll be sure to let people know. I always thought i’d have more issues cross platform XP – Mac OS X, and a simple Vista install.

Again sorry you had so many issues I hope the dev team looks into the problems on Vista.

My problem: installing the DropBox client on Vista as a “Standard” user account.
I had all kinds of access denied errors, it tried to install it on the Admin user’s file locations, the whole installation vanished after a reboot… it was ugly.
As a good Windows user, I use a Standard user account to limit the amount of maliciousness my system may encounter. Not many do this, and this laptop is the first I’ve ever done it on myself.

So anyway, what a Vista, Standard user account person needs to do with DropBox is elevate that user account to Administrator level. Then install Dropbox, putting the folder in a logical, permissions-accessible location. Configure and test it to make sure all’s well.
After that, you are safe to then drop your user back down to Standard user level.

It’s very bizarre, but until they fix their installation script, this will persist. I saw on their forums that at least one other similar situation occurred for another user a month ago. So either the developers didn’t see it, or just have not fixed it yet.

Well, I thought I would help, and potentially save others some valuable time that I wasted. Now I’m finally psyched to really kick the tires on this thing.