>I am trying to find the easist way to prompt the end user if he/she wants to have a shortcut placed on their desktop at the end of the installation. I need it to take in account the fact that the user can change the default directory and the user may have profiles setup on their computer, so I need to be able to change the lnk file dynamically.

Look at those links:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q193/0/82.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q151/8/18.asp?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q190/8/14.ASP?LNG=ENG&SA=ALLKB