After reinstalling Windows XP and every other application Quickbooks finally installs and works. After the long battle with Quickbooks I have grown my apperication for web applications and the time it takes to install Unix based solutions.
Windows is fine for simple home applications, expect once you get into more complex applications of the operating systems you constantly require more and more tools to make up for the OS its self.
My guess is, if microsoft provided a way to segment installs of applications a little more then this would be less of a problem.