well, I get right back at you.
I think it indeed is problem of installshield which also uses dll's to show screens.

actually it's so wicked that on some systems it does not work when no other programs is running... well, loads about 15mins the starting screen.

if you call any other program (not setup), aren't they started just fine?

mm... you could also try with RunEx() udf
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