If you tried to install v2.4, It's clear that you ran into troubles, since it requires at least win2k...
And the error you got means that the uninstaller has been removed somehow.

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That's probably what happened. I inadvertently upgraded to 2.4 and something got messed up because hey, it is Windows ME!