Bill, thanks for the solution. I would most likely not run anything under system account that has to do with office but knowing that profile has to have a desktop to run automated excel is nice. do not understand why would it ever need the folder though...
I just finished a week of excel manipulation code as the website version would have been too hard to use (go figure) and it is nice to find yet another reason why the excel route is way worse. 
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