Actually, we went straight from Joomla 1.6.3 to Joomla 1.7, so never gave that release a shot. We have seen install errors in 1.6 on a number of different components, not just ours, but from quite a few developers.
Are you planning to upgrade to Joomla 1.7?
Nicholas
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