Tks, added update to post#2. I believe there are different opinions about the answer file, because if you have different answer files, you could change the file names to tell which is which, but then you would need to add the switch, and put it in a ext. drive....so I leave it for people to decide for himself. About the Product key, a OEM guy told me it should be in PE pass, setup_neutral component, but I don't want to do all over again just to test it. Edit: also, I guess 1 thing we could do to overcome the WU glitch - install windows with a user account, do WU and image clean-up, then boot back to audit mode.
No, you couldn't, what I did was first make a local account, make all the updates to windows/office, cleanup, then boot into Audit mode and delete the local account.