Sorry for the trouble.. A few days ago I applied this fix for Vista to get rid of the pesky COM Surrogate error (which happens occassionally and is really more of an annoyance than anything)...
Basically I did this (
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... -in-vista/) and it broke LOTROExtreme too I guess... I rolled the fix back and LE is working great again.
Thanks for your time