Thanks to Jared Nichols for his suggestion:
"What I found worked was that you can drag the installer file into the Casper Admin app so that it is uploaded to the server. Then, go into Server Admin and go to the CasperShare and re-propagate the permissions (O/G/E and ACLs) and that seemed to fix the issues during deployment."
That did the trick for me.
And thanks for the other ideas - I'm sure they will come in handy in other situations.
paul
Paul Benham
Desktop Operations Analyst
Bates College
110 Russell Street
Lewiston, ME 04240
PH: 207-786-6382
pbenham at bates.edu