Marty,
We at CameraBits have tried and we cannot reproduce the behavior you are seeing, on different computers and in different locations. There is a Microsoft knowledge article pertaining to this issue, it is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130691/en-usI double-checked and the versions of the navigator and favorites you are using should have this code enabled.
To be sure that you don't have an old version of PhotoMechanic hanging around or old ActiveX controls somehow, I'd like you to try uninstalling PhotoMechanic on the system you are having problems with, then before reinstalling a new version, I'd like you to search for old ActiveX controls hanging around. Make sure you don't have any instances of PhotoMechanic running and uninstall the program.
After you perform the uninstallation, if you could open Windows Explorer, right-click on "My Computer" in the left-hand pane and select "Search...". Then click "All files and folders", and type "PM*.ocx" (without the quotes) in the "All or part of the file name" text field. Then click "Search".
There should be no OCX controls found. If there are, try selecting the OCX controls that are found in the search results and delete them. If they can't be deleted, then they are in use, which shouldn't happen if PhotoMechanic truly isn't running.
If you can't delete them, try restarting your machine and repeat the above search. When you find them, try once again to delete them. If you haven't started PhotoMechanic, it should be possible to delete them.
Then reinstall the program. Repeat the search to locate the ActiveX controls. When you find them, right click on them, click "Properties", then click the "Version" tab. Let us know the version numbers of both PMFavorites.ocx and PMNavigator.ocx.
If it looks like your ActiveX controls are up-to-date and you are still having the problem, the next thing to do would be to verify your Windows setup. In our phone conversation last month you mentioned that you are using VirtualPC to create virtual Windows environments. I'd like you to try running the latest version of PhotoMechanic on a machine that isn't running multiple versions of Windows and let us know if it happens there.
If it doesn't happen there and it does happen in your virtual environment, I'd like to know more about the specifics of the Windows environment on the machine you are using PhotoMechanic on, what is the "base" version of Windows and where is it installed, where is the problematic version installed, do you have multiple installations of PhotoMechanic on the same computer.
Thanks for helping us to possibly reproduce your problem.
- Kathy
