I have some great news!  Well great from my point of view anyway.  The Alpha version of the Pack Installer I've been working on is now available for download on CodePlex!  I'm pretty excited about this for a couple reasons. 

First, I'm excited to find out what everyone thinks about it once they get to use it, instead of just seeing the screen shots I've posted. 

Second, this is the first time I've really gotten to incorporate direct user feedback in a project I'm working on.  The project is definitely better off because of the feedback we got and what we did in response.  It still has a long way to go before its 1.0 worthy, but it will get there with more great feedback.  In fact, now that it's posted you can submit feedback directly on CodePlex.  Please log bugs and feature suggestions if you think this is a project that's worth making better. 

Lastly, and this is the personal reason, this is my first set of actually shipping bits since I started here at Microsoft in June.  So I'm stoked about it, and I think it's in a good state for Alpha release. 

So here it is, the link to what I've been working on for the last two months...  Pack Installer

Enjoy!