Thanks for your quick reply, Bovi. I still haven't had any luck. When I have more time this week I plan to start the whole process over again, just to make sure I haven't missed a step. As a sidenote, I am using RTW Gold Edition (which was mentioned in an earlier forum as being incompatible with your validation tool, and I found similar results; when I ran the batch file the list of broke/missing files was huge...I don't know how helpful that will be) and I am operating on Windows XP service pack 2, not Vista. And when I start RTW, I have no problems.

I will post again after I give the whole thing another shot (hoo boy), but if you have any further advice or suggestions, or if there is anyone else who has experience with this [common?] problem please feel free to let me know. Again, your help is greatly appreciated.