>>I compile it, and it gives me an error message that file access is denied...pointing to the .exe of the app.
>>If I then try to run the .exe, it says something about possibly not having permissions.
What virus scanner are you using?
-and- where is the destination folder? Check out Windows Virtualstore that can appear to mess with app versions/access.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1