Really.
After many years of Half Life beeing banned from my HD, I decided to reinstall it because a buddy of mine shoed me a lot of cool mods(Natural selection, Global Warfare, and many more). But apparently MP is only possible with STEAM installed now. Now here's the problem: I tried every version of the steam installer(the small standalone file, since I have both HL and all the mods in the newest versions on CD's) but it either tells me that Steam.dll is missing during install, or that it can't connect to any GeneralDirectoryServer. I tried everything listed in the support files on the STEAM site browsed through their help forums(which is filled with threads expressing the evilness of that pest and many nasty words about how the people imagine ways of torturing the developers of STEAM in the most painful ways). I even started my own thread about it, only getting cynic replies from the desillousioned users. So...is there anyone who had similar problems and solved them or knows how to help me?