Well, I made the app work. I let it partially install and hang so that it at least wrote the registry keys, then copied over the installation from another installation off an XP box, changed the registry license key, pulled up an XP version of it and wrote the config files, and then transfered them into the Vista versions directory, and then pulled the dll's off an XP install and dropped them into Vista's System32 directory. It runs and is configured correctly and I hope I don't need to change the configuration because simply writing the file hangs the app in Vista, so I have to use an XP box and do it the hard way again.
Next I have to tackle VPN and I already know that my VPN appliance that I use requires a deterministic network driver be installed along with the VPN app on client systems. Red flags already anyone? Yeah - it won't install. Time to find a workaround like above.
-S
PS. To AL - I only wish I had to do only Word and the occasional game of SHIV! (insert much envy here) - But even you needed to use a hack to make something work!
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