Portable App Development

I've met some success using reg rapper, however, the program I am seeking to turn portable has extension .dll's, and refuses to function without a particular one on the c drive. Is it possible to turn applications like these completely portable? I can get the registry and program settings to work, however, this .dll keeps getting in the way. Are there any programs to get around this, that would allow me to make the app portable?

This question is mostly at John, but to anyone who wishes to voice an opinion.

How important linux compatability? I have tested FakeNES Portable under wine 0.9.57- Mepis linux in case anyone cared- and it ran.

Usually, I browse with restricted rights both at home and at work, but sometimes I use a friend´s PC with my PortableFirefox on an admin account and they won´t change the settings or accounts for different reasons. So, to make it short:
is there a general need for a portable app like
dropmyrights Portable and if, how could that be acchieved or who can make it?
Any comments?suggestions?

i'm making Doom Portable using Doom Legacy and FreeDoom and I wanted to know if upx'ing the files would affect game performance

is the license.txt in the source folder supposed to be the license of the app we're doing or the license of PortableApps.com?

Does anyone know where to find any open source alternatives to the following Microsoft binaries?

MSCOMCTL.OCX
MSINET.OCX
scrrun.dll
shdocvw.dll
VB6STKIT.DLL

What I want to know is what requirements does my app have to meet to get the PortableApps.com "seal of approval"? Not just app requirements (directory structure, etc.), but installer requirements (command line switches, etc.)? I know there are threads all over the place about this, but it'd be nice to have all the specifications in one place...

We really need formal documentation for this.

Possible to re-size Portable Apps Menu? The idea of portableapps is great but I would like to use them on a UMPC that has a 800x480 screen and I cannot see the top half of the Portable Apps Menu. Is there a solution (eg a startup ini file?)

ok, i'm wanting to make an app for PortableApps Developers to upx any given folder with the click of a button or two. what i need is a complete list of all file types that can be upx'd. i know i can just do *.* but when you have something that has a ton of small files it takes a while. the upx website doesn't list everything, and all i know of at the moment are .exe, .dll, .pyd, .irc, .dcp, .com, .sys, .pe. please either post a link to a complete list or post other file types you know are upxable, thanks.

My question is this, i am making an app portable that leaves its appdata in the
C:\Documents and Settings\****\local settings\application data folder, now when i try to get this to save in my data folder it always puts it in the C:\ instead of where i want it to go. What would i change in this part of my script:

!if "${REDIRECTUSERPROFILE}" = "TRUE"
		IfFileExists "$DATADIR\UserProfile\*.*" +2
			CreateDirectory "$DATADIR\UserProfile" ; create directory for portable user profile