No shockwave

Im not sure if this will help, however when i loaded Win2k i lost shockwave altogether, but by reloading it again all the games etc i had before were restored.
Maybe you should as the restricted user reload shockwave from from their site, and if this brings no joy, try as administrator giving the retsrcted user rights for this.
Hope this helps.

Hi,
It seems trivial to say that this is obviously permissions related. My first thought is that you say you have locked the user down, you wouldn't by any chance have disabled shockwave for that user in
user config \ admin \windows componentsIE\admin approved controls
by any chance? look at the effective settings on the local machine (use the mmc on the notepad and add the GPO snap in - set focus to local machine). Failing a GPO issue, it's the old process of elimination on local file and registry permissions I'm afraid. I had a nightmare a short while ago when an msi package of office 97 I created refused to run the word spellchecker for anyone other than admin or powerusers. I used filemon and regmon from www.sysinternals.com (great site)
to look at what keys \ files were being accessed when running the app as admin to give me a clue where to look, and began my search from there. If you have a test machine you might save some time and narrow it down by giving everyone fullcontrol of HKLM \software and\or the c:\ drive which will might also give you some direction as to where the problem lies.