Thanks for the update, sorry I could not be of more help.  I agree on the poor quality control considering Vista is mainstream now and so is 64bit.  It upsets me to no end they cannot make a program that runs properly on this machine without a lot of hassle on our part installing and placing it.

Glad ya got it though, perhaps this will help others.  Yep, that is why I could not get textures..once I moved my runtime to the "public" folder which I HATE..it works fine! Go figure!