[llleisure]

Turn off User Account Control or go directly monkey around with the permissions of \Program Files\Fullt Tilt directory. The notes file is your playername.dat and resides in the \Program Files\Full Tilt.

Damn Vista UAC (User Account Control) keeps apps from running as admin and having rights to write to the dir. It causes all manner of problems and I finally gave up and disabled it. Once you disable it, everything runs as admin like it did on XP and you don't have goofy issues like this. I had the exact same problem as you before I turned off UAC.

Edit: Also, if you do turn off UAC then every time you see some random Vista problem where the solution is "oh you have to run that as admin" you can just giggle. You will be imune to those problems - granted you're more vulnerable to viruses etc but don't run random unknown crap, use AV software etc you be fine.