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Launching Vista User Accounts applet from code

My apologies if this shows up twice. I've given it 24 hours, but Windows
Mail has issues posting stuff, which makes things even more fun because of
the number of Vista issues I'm having:

I have to launch the User Accounts applet with admin credentials (long story
short, UAC on my machine got corrupted and is not allowing me to enter admin
credentials, so I am completely locked out of admin account...oh, yeah,
Microsoft's own USB F-Lock keyboards (the only kind I have) will not let me
enter safe mode either).
Therefore, while I wait for MS escalation folks to call me back (seriously,
I can't even reinstall Vista in this state!), I'm trying to write an app to
put my regular user back in the Admin group, but launching MMC from command
line doesn't work (if I try to add the local user snap-in, I still have
access denied), so I'm seeing if there's some way to launch the user account
applet via .Net. My problem is that I can't find the actual process that is
being launched when I click the shortcut (it doesnt' go to file per se)

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