While this may not help you, there are certainly options for deploying silently without the MSI if you're so inclined.

If you really can't deploy anything but MSIs, then how do you handle the other thousands of installers that aren't MSI packaged? Firefox seems like a nit in comparison to the legions of corporate-important applications that use any other install method but MSI. Or legacy apps that were packaged before the popularity of MSI. Or in house desktop applications. Or any number of other obnoxious speed bumps you deal with when managing a large number of desktops + app deployment in a corporate environment.

Thanks for the word recalcitrant. I'll probably never have any conversational use for it, but learning new words is fun!

How could you go through all that and then not define furlong??? Your credibility is totally shot now!

I for one appreciate your effort on this thing. I've been watching the conversation on wine-devel since you started and it's unfortunate that there's been so many roadblocks. Best of luck in your future endeavors.

Who uses the word "plinth" instead of "pedestal"? While it's always fun to learn new words, I'll never get back those 5 seconds during which I was scratching my head trying to figure that out. And the 30 seconds it took me to post this pointless reply. You owe me 35 seconds sir!

also posting to acquire pointless achievement points. I feel dirty.