So, I noticed the commit 5420 left a tiny amount of "../..//dx8sdk" refs, so I thought I'd finish cleaning those out.
What followed from that, was a general sweep of the 2008 vcproj files. I cleaned out all the <FileConfiguration> sections as they had absolutely nothing defined in them to differentiate them from anything else.
And since I was already here and dirty up to my elbows, I added Inferno Build Support (Regular and Debug) and made any files that were still being created as 3_6_10 be 3_6_11.
Update-vcproj.patch:
Right-Click and Save As md5: a695478b0577adc62da809f1e8a84c2f
Still working on making Speech and Voice Recognition possible under Express editions. I half-way have a solution, but I'm being hampered by versioning. More updates on that as they happen.
(And hopefully it won't be something that will kill compiling Speech and Voice for the Standard/Pro users.)