Magnum,
What you are geting is not infact a text icon but a text file or a shortcut to the text file. The picture you see on your desktop is only a representation of that fact.
The file to which you refer is located, in your current example, C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EALand\TSOPatch and is called either "TSO.dup.log" or "TSO.dup.log.bak" there are other text files also contained in that directory. These are log files that store information about process start up which as you can see by the example you provided did in fact succeed in the CreateProcess() function. (If you ran from C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims Online you would see those exact same files but as you can well guess would have a different path)
Since as I stated before this is not related to your computer, your operating system, or the application. Regardless of if it is installed to EALand or The Sims Online folders or directories, which ever suits your fancy. The process should succeed and if fact did.
Rest assured Christmas eve or Christmas day, I will not stop till service is restored.
Thanks for your help with the pings much appreciated and helped narrow in on the potential problem.
I never got a request for my Yim or MSM where did you send it? I have sent you my YIM in stratics mail just now...
Cheers,
Lee