Lonkero,
Why would the service need more than local admin? Almost everything it is doing is on the local box - when it copies a file off, I map the drive before hand. BTW, it works fine when I am logged on as the local admin and run the script.
As for Interactive - I think you may have nailed my hanging issue. When I am logged in and run the script, no problem, but as a service, excel hangs. But, for the service "Log On" permissions, I user the local admin ID. How would this then be run "interactively"?
Thanks,
Shawn