Here's the solution
On a test machine, I went to [link|http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/framework1_1redist/|http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/framework1_1redist/] and downloaded the free redistributable 1.1 framework file, 23 Meg in size, and then ran the install. Overall it took around 3 minutes.
After that, we were able to run my program on that PC. So I copied the 23 Meg file to a network share so that others can copy it to their PCs and run the install.
Now, if I can just get them as enthusiastic to download & install Service Pack 1 for the redistributable framework ...
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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