Whenever loading Dreamweaver MX 2004, there are two files that need to be loaded into memory. Whether Dreamweaver is preactivated or not, it looks for the Macromedia Licensing.exe to run. Another file that is loaded is the ASP.NET Design Manager - which may or may not crash DWMX if it's not. On Windows 2000 and Windows XP, a licensing service is loaded. I'm not sure how that works on Windows '98.
It is not the Product Activation that's the issue. I was able to make a complete replica of my Dreamweaver MX 2004 installation with the help of WinInstall. All registry settings were copied over as well. The serial number along with the activation verification number. That disables Product Activation from coming up. The first screen that comes up in DWMX before anything loads is the "Choose a Workspace" screen which allows one to select Coder or Designer. That screen loads before the Product Activation, which if anything, would be the issue. However, I disabled that as well by copying over my configuration directory and modifying my customization preferences in the registry.
Even with the Product Activation disabled and the screen that comes up to choose a workspace, it still doesn't work. Which leads me to believe that the issue may be with a DLL (or several DLLs) that DWMX 2004 is loading on startup. In Dreamweaver MX, it pretty much uses the same files with the exception of the 'licensing' program - the Macromedia_Licensing_Installer.dll.
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