You can force an install by doing the following:
Download the iTunesSetup.exe.
Install iTunes. It will complain about 2 things (AppleMobileDeviceSupport and MobileMe). Ignore them for now.
Get Universal Extractor from and install
Get Orca from and just install the Win32 components (8.5MB) instead of the whole thing (1.3GB).
Once the Windows SDK is installed, go into C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin and double-click on Orca.msi.
Launch Universal Extractor and drag the iTunesSetup.exe into its dialog box. UniExtractor will extract all files into a subfolder.
Launch Orca and drag AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi into its main window.
Click on LaunchCondition in the Tables pane and remove
(VersionNT=501 And ServicePackLevel>=2....)
Save AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi
Do the same for MobileMe.msi.
Now double-click on AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi and MobileMe.msi in that order.
mkistenmacher
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From: Hamburg, Germany
Registered: May 3, 2006
Re: MobileMe 1.3 and Windows Server 2003
Posted: Mar 13, 2009 6:21 AM in response to: klui
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Yeah, it worked, but I had to drop the whole LaunchCondition Table to get it installed. When I only dropped the VersionNT Condition, I got a 2229 Error.... But now it works - great.
MBP Mac OS X (10.5.6)
klui
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Registered: Mar 13, 2009
Re: MobileMe 1.3 and Windows Server 2003
Posted: Mar 13, 2009 11:46 AM in response to: mkistenmacher
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It appears the 2229 is quite common among people who want to modify msis so they can force Apple stuff to install on their PCs and their solution was to delete that entire table. This post seems to imply it may be due to language differences. My link probably brings you to an English version, so perhaps downloading a localized version of Orca would help. You probably don't care as it works for you and know the workaround.