>>That assumes he's running from the CD.
>
>That's true, but of course there wasn't anything in the question 
>that stated otherwise. If in fact the app is not loading from the 
>CD, then something somewhere likely did an installation, and it 
>makes most sense to simply write out the CD drive letter in a prefs 
>file during that process.


That's how it used to be done by installers. The problem they ran 
into was that if someone added a Zip drive, or partitioned their hard 
drive, or just changed the CD drive letter to confuse you, your 
software wouldn't work.


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