So far, I have been unable to reproduce any of the problems you report, even after you sent me your project source files. I tried running the exact EXE you sent me, and it worked fine - no need to even so much as rebuild your source files. This reminds me of the case with Resident GigaLems, where you said there was a problem with the EXE and sent me the supposedly faulty EXE, I had no problem when I ran it, so I sent the exact same EXE back, asked you if it worked, and you said it worked fine. The exact same EXE you sent me that you said was not working. And that's exactly what happened this time too. Either you're running the wrong EXE, or there's something very unusual about your computer that causes the problem's presence or absence to be based on whether or not you've sent the file to me and I've sent it back.
If you're definitely not doing anything wrong, the only remaining suggestion I can make is to try building your EXE on another computer, since your computer seems to be the only one with this problem. You should be able to do this on any Windows computer (as long as it's Windows 2000 or higher; building an EXE doesn't work on earlier versions than that. It should work on a Linux PC that has WINE installed), and you do not need administrator rights.