I tried to install LibreOffice in parallel to older version as a network image by using the DOS command msiexec /a LibO_3.5.1rc2_Win_x86_install_multi.msi into a folder named d:\$temp. Short before the installation finished the following message appeared: MS Visula C++ Runtime Library Program ...\unopkg.bin This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Starting soffice.exe then also led to an error message. This behavior was caused by the $-sign in the path name, which is actually a permissible character for a Windows path. After removing that $ from the path by a rename operation soffice.exe could be run! I suppose that other non-alpha-numeric characters cause the same problem. But another user reported "(" or ")" worked for him in the path name. When the installation path contains no $-sign the installation finishes successfully. A similar problem can be found for LO Portable. This also fails to run when being installed into a path containing "$".
"$" is special in that it is used as a macro prefix in LO's ini file syntax. There are most definitely various places in the code that do not properly escape "$" in pathnames, leading to confusion when such pathnames are used in combination with the ini file macro expansion machinery. Better avoid "$" in pathnames.
After reading Stephan's comment, this bug looks like a WONTFIX to me. Sorry.