> I gave the vccrt8_Win32.msi file from the Firebird 2.1.1 Zip file to
> the customer, but he was unable to run it because of his MSI Installer
> being too old.
>
> What can I do to overcome such situations?

You can download Windows Installer 3.1 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482FC-5F56-4A38-
B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en

Personally, I wouldn't recommend running any version of Windows XP before
SP2 for any reason anyway, but you can't always get your end-users to do
what you want :-)

Dean.