Peter,

> Arrrghh ....
>
> Who on earth came up with this whole concept????
>
> I've got the Code signing blues!

And please don't forget that your new certificate does not have any
"reputation" <g>. Files signed with a brand new code signing certificate
need to build reputation, you'll have to earn trust. Reputation is
generated and assigned to digital certificates as well as specific files.
But digital certificates allow data to be aggregated and assigned to a
single certificate rather than many individual programs.

There's absolutely no way around code-signing <g>

Friedrich