"kirk jim" <11@11.11> wrote in message
news:ONmavWLeHHA.928@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>i suspect that other programs do similar things...

If you do find other applications that do this kind of thing, please either
get the vendor to stop doing that or let me know ( zachd at microsoft dotty
com, subject "redist issue") and I'll get the appropriate people to follow
up. Putting shared/common registered dlls in a private directory is needs
to be unacceptable - DLL Hell is fun for no one. =\

-Zach
--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.