You'd be better off asking Installer-specific questions  in a Windows
Installer newsgroup. The Windows Installer is quite complex and
incorrect entries in the table will cause the install to fail (and
it's far too easy to make incorrect entries unless you have a lot of
experience with this).

When you say "install the runtime components" do you mean you're
installing the Access runtime? There really is no such thing as
runtime "components", there's only the Access runtime.

There are also some freely available installers out there; InnoSetup
is one (use your favorite search engine to find it).

If you've got the runtime, then you've also got a copy of the
Developer edition (or extensions) which comes with the Package &
Deployment wizard (you can't legally deploy the runtime without the
developer edition/extensions). The one that shipped with 2002 wasn't
much, but I've heard the 2003 one is definitely a better product. You
should be able to use this to