I found out what the problem is, although I don't know why it happened, but I do know that it happened on 2 different machines. Bascially the registry entries that Mappoint uses to register the ActiveX control, all have their permissions revoked. However, the install shows nothing wrong, and Mappoint does run just fine. You just can't launch it using the activeX control. By going in and finding out all the places it needs to modify, and changing the permissions back to ALLOW all, then reinstallation seems to work. The way to produce this is:

Have both Mappoint 2004 NA and Europe installed (don't know if this is related).
Uninstall Mappoint NA and then Mappoint Europe.
Install either or both Mappoint NA and Europe.
It is possible that the unistall of 2004 does this. However, in one case I used the 2006 to uninstall it, and in the other case, I just uninstalled in using the Remove Programs method.


Steve