Gave it a try on a Vista notebook machine. Very good overall impression, even with these slightly rough edges:

* Open File - Security Warning: "The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?" Not a showstopper, but it would look more professional if we could avoid this.

* Same problem Niels reported, except worse. I could only see a few pixels of the top of capital letters, so would not have even known what was happening except that I had read Niels' post.

* Choose components: Date-time: Jeff's email address being truncated. Hum... Same problem with some but not all other libraries.

* Choose components: Python - the description gets truncated. Ditto several others. Getting a good fit for the text is clearly a problem. Any reason the dialog box couldn't be bigger or resizable?

* Choose components: Would benefit from a "Deselect all", for those who are only after one or two libraries.

* It would be helpful to have a choice of 32 or 64 bit libraries. Or is that a different installer?

* Some folks prefer dll linking only. Others think dll's are "the work of the devil" and want static linking only. Still others want both. At least eventually it would be nice to cater to all these tastes.

* The resulting directory structure isn't quite right. IMO, the next level under /Program Files/Boost should be "boost_1_36".  The level under that should be similar to the boost tree as distributed in the zip/bz2/etc files, except that there won't be any entries in the boost or libs subtrees for omitted libraries.

Overall, the installer is clearly headed in the right direction, and should be a wonderful improvement for everyday users!

Thanks for all your effort,

--Beman