It turned out that this user's machine was really messed up. His IT guy had to reinstall windows. Turned out that he couldnt save files to a number of folders he should have had access to as an admin - even when run as admin was used. I see this more often than I would expect - where user profiles get torched, but still work. The odd thing about this one is that Windows had just been installed on this box a few days before.

Mark