Deployment of ClickOnce application

[coily]

Hi,

I have a deployment package that is deploying a ClickOnce application to a virtual directory for download by users. The package uses mage.exe to publish the ClickOnce app once executed.

If i run the package on my machine (XP Service Pack 2) it publishes fine and I can install the app by going to the appropriate url. However when I run the package on the QA or Dev server (Windows Server 2003) i get an error when the following line is executed in mage.exe

-New Application -ToFile "**App**_0_0_0_1987\**App**.exe.manifest" -Name "**App** **Server**" -Version 0.0.0.1987 -TrustLevel FullTrust -FromDirectory **App**_0_0_0_1987

The following is the event log details for the msi package. Note that I have replace app and server details.

The following information is part of the event: Product: **App** -- Error 1001. 
Error 1001. Infinite loop prevention ('timeout') kicked in when waiting for this to finish: 

-New Application -ToFile "**App**_0_0_0_1987\**App**.exe.manifest" -Name "**App** **Server**" -Version 0.0.0.1987 -TrustLevel FullTrust -FromDirectory **App**_0_0_0_1987 (in C:\Program Files (x86)\**AppPath**\), (NULL), (NULL), (NULL).

I cannot find any information regarding this error and wonder if anyone else has run in to it or at least can point me in the right direction.

I have 4 environments that I must keep rolling releases out to and thought I had come up with a way of building just one package that would take an enviroment parameter and amend config files as needed but with the mage.exe failing this is holding me up by at least 4 hours per day. In other words please please help!!

Let me know if I have missed any important info needed to help.

Thanks

Oliver