Just an oddity, filing away in case it helps others:
I could install Visual Studio 2010 and 2005 under 32-bit Windows instances (running under VMWare 3.0, for the record) by downloading the respective ISO from MSDN, mounting the ISO under MacOS, then "sharing" the mount through VMWare with the Windows virts. Worked a charm, was real convenient.
However, when I tried the same trick under a 64-bit Windows image, this time mounted under VMWare 4.0, the installer for both compilers failed with the message "A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup."
A bit of Googling found that others succeeded by manually burning the ISO to DVD, then installing from the physical media. Don't know if this happened because I moved up to 64-bit Windows, or VMWare 4.0. Whatever...
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