Originally Posted by IO540
Does the SP3 installation (I assume it is a single big .exe like SP2 was) check WGA?
SP2 didn't, and Office 2003 SP3 didn't check OGA either.
This is quite funny because people with systems which don't pass WGA (like that PC running a copy of XP from Amazon which turned out to be bootleg) don't get the auto updates.
Thats not quite true as even systems that don't pass WGA can get critical security updates.
AFAIK, SP3 will only check for a number of blacklisted VLK keys, and will only refuse to install if it finds that your PC is using one.
There will always be problems with any service pack release, however I'll bet that SP3 has far less issues than when SP2 hit for the majority.