Add-on won't run on some clients

As soon as an add-on users de DI SDK, it crashes at startup on some systems and I don't know why.
I'm using the DI Basic Operations example that came with the SDK. I build it, and used the SAP B1 SDK setup .NET Wizard to create the installer and licence file. The istallation goes fine, but the addon itself crashes. with a useless "the program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" error message (see below)
I also tried other ways to run the add-on (among others directly from visual studio or from the command line, with the developer licence number as argument) but allways with the same result. At one system all goes well, at the other a crash occurs even before the debugging can start.
I have no idea what this error message is trying to tell me:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): COM object with CLSID {A355004F-AAB4-41D3-BDE0-7EAED1ED5FFF} is either not valid or not registered.
   at Project1.BasicOperations.InitializeCompany()
   at Project1.BasicOperations.BasicOperations_Load(Object eventSender, EventArgs eventArgs)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Most of the time however, I get a much less helpfull error saying there was some unidentified illegal operation.
Something that is possibly related is a problem with the references. On a PC where the add-on crashes I don't have the SAP DI as reference in the .NET and COM tabs, only the SAP UI. When I open an example the DI reference is reporting an error (not found) , but when I add the reference as a file, all is well. (The project now compiles with no errors or warnings, it still crashes when I start it.
The problem already occured when only SBO was installed (which should be sufficient to run the add-on? You don't need to have the SDK installed I presume). I installed the SDK and later even Visual Studio, but this didn't help.
I've reinstalled SBO several times (I even deleted the sbo program files directory before installing SBO again) but this didn't change anything.
(I'm using 2004a)
Does anyone know what could cause this problem?

I know that, but that didn't help.
Is there any way to find out which versions of the DI API a SBO client is currently using?
We've re-installed the clients and DI API using the shared folder on the server, but that didn't help. (maybe some old dll was locked and couldn't be removed (without any notice of that happening) and is still being used?)
One system indeed didn't have the DI API installed and the problem was solved a bit (my own plug-in now works fine, but the "DI basic operations" example of the SDK crashes when connecting to a company database.)
We've now got 3 machines running my add-on without any problems (the server and 2 notebooks) and 1 notebook who won't run my add-on at all.
The DI basic operations Example of the SDK won't run on any of the notebooks, only on the server.
On one notebook it crashes when I click "choose company DB" (which should give me a list of available companies) on the other notebook it crashes when I try to connect to a (any) specific company database and on the third notebook it gives an empty list and won't connect to anything (but doesn't crahs)
this is all 100% reproducable.
All machines run the SBO client and UI add-ons perfectly, only the DI seems to cause problems.
another weird problem that might be related, is that I need to compile my add-on as "debug". When I compile it as "release", it won't run on any of the notebooks, only on the server.

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3. Drag the new channel (midtone contrast mask copy) to the trash icon at the bottom
   of the channels panel.
4. Back in the layers panel, delete the Midtone Contrast adjustment layer.
5. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Levels
    This creates a new levels adjustment layer using the selection loaded from
    the duplicated channel and opens the levels dialog.
To load the RGB (composite) as a selection, Ctrl+click on the rgb in the channels panel
and the same is true for the red, green and blue channels.
With layer masks, elements doesn't seem to want to load them as selections in actions,
so that's the reason for the action steps above.
MTSTUNER

How do I roll-back to the previous version of Firefox? An auto update occurred and now one of the programs used at the office (ACT! v6.0 SwiftMail) won't run with the browser.

The office I work in uses a very old version of ACT!, an accounting package. This package has a component called SwiftPage, an antiquated email system that enables us to email from the ACT DB. SwiftPage runs via the web browser.
Firefox just did an auto update (that I will have to find out how to turn off) and now SwiftPage won't run as it is not compatible.
Can I "roll-back" my version of Firefox or do I have to uninstall and try to re-install an older version?
HELP!

Try loading and using the add-on from this link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
Many add-ons do in fact work if you force them to run. The procedure to roll-back is given in this article: [[installing previous versions of firefox]]
Unfortunately the official Firefox policy is that you downgrade to 3.6 which is supported for a while longer, and not the now unsupported Firefox 4. If after installing and running the ''add-on compatibility reporter'' you still have problems there are ways around the official policy.
I think it is absurd that Firefox 4 may be used by tens of millions of users one day and a few days later those that upgrade to Firefox 5 should be not only told not to use a now unsupported browser, if they need to revert due to problems, but are actually obstructed in attempts to do so. See also [/questions/840397#answer-205154]

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