ODBC - why so much overhead?

I want to connect to an Oracle (10g) database through MSAccess to give some non-techie (remote) users a really simple UI to insert/update data for a short period of time. It's not economical to write an interface for them, and they don't have the machine power, time or expertise to install the entire, enormous Oracle app just to connect to the database? I looked into squirrel too, but even that's too complicated and big for users to install themselves.
Is there a more lightweight solution out there? (This is why I asked the developers to use mysql... but too late now ...)

I'm stil having problems ...
I installed Oracle Instant Client, with the ODBC drivers (which still seems like a lot of overhead & should be easier just to set up an ODBC connection...) but I still get this message when I try to create the DSN:
" The Oracle client and networking components were not found. These components are supplied by oracle Corporation and are part of the Oracle version 7.3 (or greater) client software installation.
You wil be unable to use this driver until these components have been installed. "
..I need this to be easy because I'm trying to set up a quick data entry UI for remote users who are non-technical. This shouldn't be so difficult, and they shouldn't have to install 60MB of app software to do this ...

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    Hi,
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