When I read the topics posted in this forum, I cannot fathom that people manage to have so many problems with TBP - I mean, I have 3 different TBPs (one exclusively for web mail accounts) running on my home PC (XP SP3), sometimes all or just one are transferred to a USB stick or portable drive and used off-premises, then copied back, but I've never (yeah, I know I shouldn't say this, but "touch wood") had any of the problems posted here. The updates are a wizz, everything in its place, the proper updates works from minute 1 (I wish other portable apps projects e.g. Opera@USB could be only half as good).
So John H. and everybody else working on the PortableApps projects - keep up your excellent work and best of luck with future developments!! And for yoy people with actual problems - keep posting your topics here, the forums are an excellent place to get the help you might need.
I have never had any problems with any of the apps, outside of the problems that I've brought upon myself, by tweaking or adjusting something. I am inclined to think that alot of the problems here are user caused, or stem from a corrupt download. That's happened once, but after downloading a new copy and trying it, everything cleared up and worked perfectly. My hats off to John and the whole PA.com gang.