“The mission of Catalog Choice is to reduce the number of repeat and unsolicited catalog mailings, and to promote the adoption of sustainable industry best practices. We aim to accomplish this by freely providing the Catalog Choice services to both consumers and businesses. Consumers can indicate which catalogs they no longer wish to receive, and businesses can receive a list of consumers no longer wanting to receive their catalogs.”
Peter Bromberg’s UnBlog: KB929729 Windows Update Failure - An Easy FIX
In case anyone else runs into this… I had just upgraded a machine from XP to Vista and the .NET 1.1 SP hotfix problem was waiting for me at the end of the upgrade process. Mr. Bromberg’s post of these steps fixed my problem. :-) This doesn’t sound like it’s a common problem, so it was a relief to find the steps to fix it (via Sypher Technology News)