pat, on that shortcut issue, I have come up with two workarounds...
1) copy the icon-file to windir and use it from there 2) assume, "program files" or what ever it is, is the ~1 in the folder... not ~2. leading to stripping and finally "c:\progra~1\"
I think I'll go with the second one even though it's not so secure, but will not create carbage on the systemroot...
