After much trialling and not much success…..Skype would install on my Windows Server
2008 x64 no problems, but at the sign-in screen the app would crash.
This happened in many different ways over many different Skype install permutations.
I think I’ve cracked it with an older version being the goods:
http://www.oldapps.com/download.php?oldappsid=SkypeSetup_3.0.0.190.exe
Cheers,
Mick.