Desktop Experience cannot install fail

I cannot install the Windows Desktop Experience on Windows 2008 server

trial. This is a clean install.

I tried updating windows, all updates installed successfully, except for two

which gave this error:

0x80070057 ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER The parameter is incorrect.

I was able to install the two remaining updates on the second attempt.

Then I tried installing Windows Desktop Experience again, it says OK restart

needed,

after the restart, before the logon screen it says Stage 3 ... counts to

100% and restarts, then it indicates checking the registry for errors and

restarts again. Then before the logon screen it says: Windows updates

failed, reverting changes... works for some time and restarts. After the

logon, the windows components install resumes (cannot be interrupted) and

reinstalls it and says OK restart needed. After the restart, the entire long

process repeats forever: Stage 3 count to 100%, restart, checking the

registry, restart, reverting changes, restart, windows components install

resumes...

I was able to install the Desktop Experience a few months ago. But today I

have no idea what's wrong, it just says it failed and cycles the long

process.

Any ideas?