>I'm just wondering if anyone has heard anything more from MSFT on this problem with running Compiled HTML help from a network location. We have a lot of customers wondering about this and the work arounds just aren't all that practical...

I wouldn't expect any updates from MS. As far as they concern, security flaws have been fixed and workarounds provided. Why would they care if they paractical or not? Remember stupid "security fixes" for Outlook? MS didn't provide workaround for them at all, at least not until Win2K.