Access Connections deployment error

Hi,
I try to deploy Access Connections through our school.
I followed the Lenovo guideline called "Access Connections Deployment Guide".
So, I created a file.loa and put it at the same place of the setup.exe of Access Connections.
During the installation process, un error message comes up:
"RunDLL
There was a problem starting C:\Program
The specified module could not be found."
My environnment is Windows 7 Enterprise x64.
Do you know what's the problem?
Thanks for your help,
Solved!
Go to Solution.

The problem was that the files:
___.sig
*.loa
were missing in the: C:\Program Files\ThinkPad\ConnectUtilities\LOA folder on the clients.
So resolved it by adding in my batch file some new command lines.
Thanks,

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    Unfortunately, I need to use this thing on the road as well as at home, so a fixed IP address isn't an option since I won't know what subnet(s) will be in use.  I experienced the same problems last weekend at two hotels and in the Denver airport, so it isn't my router.
    I have done quite a bit more experimentation with this problem, without any resolution.  I do notice that when it fails Vista thinks it is connected, but only locally.  It has assigned a 169... address which I take to mean that DHCP has failed.  Trying a command: ipconfig /renew fails with an error.
    If I let  it fail, then reboot, it usually will succeed as long as I try to connect to the same access point that failed before the reboot.
    I tried uninstalling Access Connections, but Vista has the same problem(s) when it is doing the management!  Failed connections, local only connections, and often success after a reboot.  One interesting and nasty difference is that when using the Windows management w/out Access Connections, wired connections will also fail in the same way!
    I see many, many people on the web who are having similar problems.   Some of the threads go back more than a year with no resolution.
    I have gone around and around with IBM/Lenovo support.  They have escalated the problem to a series of lead techs who never return phone calls.  Very disappointing, since the first tier techs are quite friendly and helpful - and generally return calls.
    My next step is to go back to the nice man who handles escalations from the sales side, and ask him where to send this piece of junk.   It boggles my mind that Microsoft and Lenovo will put this kind of half-baked crap in the marketplace, and then do nothing to get it working.
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