>The problem is you don't have the COM classes Lotus developed specifically for this. Notes.NotesSession and Notes.NotesUIWorkspace are older COM classes tied to the Notes UI executables. Lotus.NotesSession was developed so developers could access the Notes engine without the limitations you listed below.
>
>Unless you can get those classes installed, what you want can't be done. Do you have access to the R5 client? Try installing that and see if you get the newer COM classes.

A guy over on the Notes forums at IBM said, "Open a command prompt window, change to the Notes program directory and run "regsvr32 nlsxbe.dll". This registers the backend class library. Be sure to set a reference to "Lotus Domino Objects" (domobj.tlb) to get fast vtable early binding support." Now I have Lotus.NotesSession.1 in my registry. I'm still trying to get it all to work though.