Bad? Nah. I would use the words "exciting or "annoying" as it was annoying to wait but exciting as you were edging closer to playing with new software.

HOWEVER: if the act of installing software over and over again all day long was your job, then you have my condolences :-)

If you were really luck you were working in a site w/ Novell Netware and you could just copy the CAB files down from the Netware server. >smile<