WMI works except process create (urgent)

Windows 2003 Server.

A service running under the Local System account is failing to create a
process using wmi. Error code is 3. The process that it's trying to
create is on the same machine. There are no remote calls or operations
- everything is local.

Why would this fail?

Notes:
* The same program works on another W2K3 server as well as on many W2K
servers without any problem.

* I've compared DCOM an WMI Control security settings to other
machines. They appear to be the same - unless I've missed one.

* It still fails even if the service is run under user accounts (e.g.
admin) other than Local System.

* Other wmi calls work ok (e.g. enumeration of running processes etc.).
Only "process create" call fails.

A number of disgruntled clients waiting for this to be fixed. Please
help.

Thanks,
Bill

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