[tex-live] can't spawn? Why not?

[Robert J. Cristel]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>cd \pf

C:\pf>cd texlive

C:\pf\texlive>cd 2008

C:\pf\texlive\2008>tlmgr update --all
Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or 
directory at C:/pf/texlive/2008/tlpkg/TeX
Live/TLUtils.pm line 1297, <TMP> line 91791.
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) 
failed at C:/pf/texlive/2008/tlpkg/TeXLiv
e/TLUtils.pm line 1299, <TMP> line 91791.
C:\pf\texlive\2008\tlpkg\installer\lzma\lzmadec.win32.exe 
--help failed (status
65280): No such file or directory
Output is:

LZMAdec - a small LZMA decoder

Usage: 
C:\pf\texlive\2008\tlpkg\installer\lzma\lzmadec.win32.exe 
[--help]

The compressed data is read from stdin 
and uncompressed to stdout.

LZMA SDK version 4.32 - Copyright (C) 
1999-2005 Igor Pavlov
LZMA Utils version 4.32.4 - Copyright 
(C) 2005 Lasse Collin

LZMAdec is free software licensed under 
the GNU LGPL.


Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or 
directory at C:/pf/texlive/2008/tlpkg/TeX
Live/TLUtils.pm line 1297, <TMP> line 91791.
TeXLive::TLUtils::setup_programs (w32) 
failed at C:/pf/texlive/2008/tlpkg/TeXLiv
e/TLUtils.pm line 1299, <TMP> line 91791.
C:\pf\texlive\2008\tlpkg\installer\wget\wget.exe 
--version failed (status 65280)
: No such file or directory
Output is:
GNU Wget 1.10.2

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software 
Foundation, Inc.
This program is distributed in the hope 
that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 
the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic 
<hniksic at xemacs.org>.

Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
Installation of packages is not supported.
Please report to texlive at tug.org.
tlmgr: exiting unsuccessfully (status 1).

C:\pf\texlive\2008>path
PATH=%windir%\system32;C:\GTK\bin;"c:\Program 
files\Java\jre6\bin";C:\Program Fi
les\xp\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program 
Files\ATI 
Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\
Python25;C:\Python25\Scripts;C:\Program 
Files\xp\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL 
Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\PF\texlive\2008\bin\win32;C:\Progra
m 
Files\Haskell\bin;C:\ghc\ghc-6.10.1\bin;C:\Program 
Files\xp\WinAnt\bin;C:\Prog
ram Files\Pinnacle\Shared 
Files;C:\Program Files\Pinnacle\Shared 
Files\Filter

C:\pf\texlive\2008>cd %windir%\system32

C:\WINDOWS.0\system32>dir cmd.exe
  Volume in drive C has no label.
  Volume Serial Number is 3879-16F4

  Directory of C:\WINDOWS.0\system32

01/26/2008  05:57 AM           389,120 
cmd.exe
                1 File(s)        389,120 
bytes
                0 Dir(s)  21,005,533,184 
bytes free

C:\WINDOWS.0\system32>