I am running General Chemistry 4.0 software at the school where I am a sysadmin. It has the same Macromedia Projector Error described here...To get it running in Windows XP Pro, I had to go through all of the following:
Lower 3d Graphics acceleration to the 3rd tick mark from the left. (display control panel->settings tab->advanced button->troubleshooting tab->slider is in that tab)
--At this point it runs if you have administrative access...I needed to set it up so it could run without. The remaining steps took care of that..
*Launch software under admin access.
*While software was running, I had to open the c:\windows folder and set both xobglu16.dll and xobglu32.dll to read-only. Apparently the software tried to write those files to the windows folder when launched and delete them when closed. Non administrative users can't write to the windows folder.
*a 3rd file called chem40.ini also resides in the windows folder. Right click->properties->security button->grant modify rights to whatever non-admin user or group needs it to this file. OK your way out.
*One other thing you can also try is grant modify rights to the installation folder to all users: c:\program files\general chemistry 4.0\ in my case.
After all that, I could make the ancient Macromedia Projector based Chemistry software launch as a non-administrative user. I am posting this because I have scoured the internet for help on this and eventually ended up using a process monitoring tool (Process Monitor from
Sysinternals) to figure out that .ini file was causing the issue.
Hope this helps someone!
-rilian