IDisk for Windows on USB flash drive?

Hello all. I am a physician/scientist in the not uncommon situation where the med school lab is mac-based but the hospitals are all-PC, with locked-down PC's on the wards. I have gotten around this to some degree by carrying around a little flash drive with "portable" versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice. As I am going around the hospital seeing patients, I can go to any of the PCs, plug in the drive, and use my own software. I would like to be able to use iDisk this way, as an easy way to shuttle files around, but lacking administrator passwords, I cannot itstall it onto the flash drive. Can iDisk for windows be "portable-ized" to run this way?

You don't need to use the iDisk utility in order to access your iDisk files from a Windows PC.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=52384
However I suspect that the network may block the ports necessary for iDisk, but you could try.
iFelix

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thomas.adkins wrote:
On previous versions of Network Magic, when adding a laptop to my wireless network, an option would appear for using a USB flash drive to transfer settings and/or password to the new machine.
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Thank you.
Hi thomas,
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thomas.adkins wrote:
On previous versions of Network Magic, when adding a laptop to my wireless network, an option would appear for using a USB flash drive to transfer settings and/or password to the new machine.
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