Installing Games for Windows live problem. Options

[Soodle]

1) I need to install GFWL(Games for windows live) to play some games im really,really interested in. These games are Bioshock 2 and GTA 4.
so when i try to install GFWL , this error comes up.

An error has occured while installing XliveRedist.msi



when i went into add and remove programs, i saw
microsoft games for Windows - live ,
and
microsoft games for windows - live redistributable
I tried removing both of them, but it came up with:
The feature you are trying to use is on a network source that is unavailible.
Click ok to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package.
xLiveRedist.msi in the box below.
I think this is the problem.
What i need to do is somehow make the computer stop thinking theres a GFWL. Since when im installing GFWL, its probably detecting thats its already installed, but its not, and goes crazy.

[MonkeyFiend]

Hi,

After you've run the games for windows live (GFWL) setup, open your event viewer (start > Control panel > administrative tools > event viewer) and have a look in the application logs for the GFWL install error, pasting the full details in here will help.

There are a number of causes for this error usually caused by a old GFWL registry keys, registry key permissions issue, knackered msi installation or interference by other programs, there are a few more obscure causes I know of, but the full details of that error will let us know which one to go for