Troubleshooting: MSI 3.1 on Prerelease of W2k3SP1 crashes

If you were in the prerelease program of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, then please be sure to remove the prerelease from your system before resuming normal computation. It was pointed out that this uninstall clause in the RTM Readme, "Before You Install SP1" section

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 Unless you have a supplemental support agreement with Microsoft, you must uninstall any prerelease versions of SP1 before you proceed. Microsoft does not support the installation of this version over the release candidate or beta versions of SP1.

There's probably a handful of users that will run into this problem but I can't imagine where they'll go for help if they do hit this so I thought I'd drop a line.