Stand-Alone exe not seeing my VISA instruments

Hello, I am attempting to build a standalone installer application from my VI using LV 7.1 on a Win 2k machine. I have gone through the build application wizard making sure to enable hardware configuration checkbox and select the desired VISA TCP/IP instruments from the list. I am able to build the application without errors and install the stand-alone app on a new PC without LV installed. When I try and run the app, I do not see my TCP resources.
I have tried to install the NI-VISA runtime ver 4 with no success.
Now, when I was installing the app on the new PC, I did recieve an error saying that MAX wasnt avalible. So is there a way to get MAX without installing Labview? Is there someplace on NI's website that allows you to download just the MAX. I would think that the whole purpose of building a standalone application is to NOT have to install labview and therefore MAX.
So what am I missing here? Any help would be great.

I have done some additional digging and here are my results. On my front panel I have a VISA Resource Combo box that selects which instrument I want to use over ethernet (they are both Agilent RF sources). In the visaconf.ini file on my development PC, I see that the aliases for my instruments TCPIP0::xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx::instr0::INSTR are present. There is also a TCPIP-RSRCS section in the config file with more info relating to the TCPIP0 instrument.
On my target PC with only my stand-alone application installed (and no LV), my visaconf.ini file doesnt say a thing about TCPIP0. There is no TCPIP-RSRCS section in the file either. This probably explains why I am not seeing my Agilent instruments in the standalone application.
I do have the MAX configuration file (.nce) but I see no obviously way to load this file into my stand-alone application. I think I bundled it with the installer, but I am really stuck.
Any thoughts???
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