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  • i had the same problem and just fixed it....

    here is some more text from M$

    Similarly, if you downloaded SQL Server 2005 Developer Community Technology Preview (CTP) from the MSDN download site, the full product is split into two separate downloads. To perform a complete installation of SQL Server 2005, you must download both the Servers and Tools files to folders that are named Servers and Tools. Additionally, keep these folders under the same level of a folder or the root folder of a drive before you start the installation.

    basically i downloaded both sql2005 disk from m$. created folder called sqlserver2005 on my desktop created a Servers and a Tool folder under the sqlserver2005 unziped disk 1 into servers folder and uzipped disk 2 in the tools folder. and the client components installed perfectly!!

    hope this helps....took me all day to fix