So maybe I am the last person in the galaxy to figure this out, but with my forementioned huge hard drive I decided to see if I could shortcut the typical 3-4 hour install time for VS2003 and just copy the CD's to the drive and install from there. Two words; oh, yeah! It will take less than 5 minutes to install this!
One little lesson learned; I copied each CD to its own subdirectory, which produced some errors. Just copy each CD to the same directory (responding "ok" to overwriting existing directories) and you'll be fine.
Oh, and in the time it took to write this I went from 50% install to done. That's cool!!!!