Firefox Portable Live in Win98 - Local Home Page doesnt' work

I've been working on packaging a website on a CD that will work as many computers as possible. I chose to use Firefox portable since it doesn't send up scary looking security warnings like IE7 does when loading local flash content.

I've been able to get a Firefox Portable live CD working successfully in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista using the instructions posted on this site. Just pop the CD in and it loads just fine and points to page specified in the FirefoxPortable.ini file under "LocalHomepage="

The path to the local home page is adjusted properly on each test machine and everything runs beautifully. I have it specified with the following command:

LocalHomepage=./html/index.html

However, when the same disc is loaded on a Windows 98 machine, things don't go so well. First, a dialog box that contains following message:

"Fireox Portable appears to be running from a location that is read-only. Would you like to copy it to the local hard drive and run it from there?"

Not completely ideal. However, once it finishes loading, the home page is set to the path that looks like the one used originally on the machine that the CD was created on:

file:///CC:\Documents and Settings\Jon\Desktop\Test\FirefoxPortable/./html/index.html

It has an extra 'C' drive letter appened to the path and a mix of forward and back slashes. Of course it doesn't work. On the other test machines, the path appears as "file:///D:/html/index.html" where D: changes to the appropriate drive letter.

I should also note that the splash page appears, even though I've specified it be turned off in the FirefoxPortable.ini with "DisableSplashScreen=true" This leads me to believe that the FirefoxPortable.ini is not being read in Windows 98 and all the settings are set to their defaults and why things aren't running off the CD properly.

I've brunt a whole lot of CDs trying different configurations to get around this problem (though I really should just be a CD-RW disc). I'd like to know if anyone else is having this problem with Windows 98 or if it might just be a problem with the machine's setup.

I should note that I'm using Firefox Portable 2.0.0.8 and the following info in my FirefoxPortable.ini

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=./html/index.html
WaitForFirefox=true
DisableSplashScreen=true
AllowMultipleInstances=true
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipChromeFix=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=true

Thanks to anyone who can help!

-jon