Since I'm usually not smart enough to reinstall things (even though I keep all the friggin' installation packages I've ever downloaded), I resort to transplants, packing the loose soil of a fresh hard drive around the dry roots of previously installed (and then burned for archive's sake) programs.
Yuck. Note to self: No more planting metaphors.
Copy copy copy, look around, attempt to run Apache:
Syntax error on line 61 of c:/apache group/apache/conf/httpd.conf: ServerRoot must be a valid directory Note the errors or messages above, and press theWonderful. Time to locate PFE and get fixin'.key to exit.