Today I tried to install lyx-143-5-bundle.exe from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.3/ and LyX-1.5.0svn-2007-02-07-Installer-bundle.exe from http://www.lyx.org/~bpeng/ on Windows XP Professional.Both crashed with the following error message: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! I used "Install on the fly: Yes" for MiKTeX.
Did you use the bundled miktex or a pre-installed one? I bundled the latest miktex which is supposed to work correctly. Cheers, Bo