Well, after 3 hours of research and failed attempts at uninstalling, reinstalling and uninstalling, I finally found a brute force method of getting the dormant and unused Works 2000 Suite off my hard drive so I may have enough free disk space to install some software I actually want to use, like programming tools...
...At least I THINK I finally got em off the drive and out of the registry. Used a couple of handy DOS scripts from MS themselves, something called wks2kll.exe and a 'Windows Installer Cleanup' utility.
<*rant on*>
The very existence of these tools is MS's tacit admission that the MS Works 2000 software is flawed and that a brute force solution must be employed to even REMOVE the software using the standard ADD/REMOVE function, and that solution could only be found after some searching.
Installing Microsoft bloatware on a hard disk is like stepping into a room with wall to wall fly paper on the floor, I just wanted to get out and free up some disk space, not learn the intricacies of setup launchers, registry tasks, and a host of "cleanup" utilities designed to stitch up the sucking chest wound that is MS application software.
<*rant off*>
