OpsMgr (#SCOM) CU installation extracts but fails to install

As most everyone knows in the OpsMgr community Kevin Holman has an excellent article on the various CU installations including the one on CU5: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx  We ran into an issue which I did not see discussed in his article however – or to be more clear – his article told us what we had to…