We're developing with a third party ActiveX component in VB.NET 2005.
I am able to create instances from the component using both early and
late binding if I run from within visual studio.  However, when I build
the project and run the executable on the same machine I get an
exception.

Early binding gives the following exception during the New statement:
System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected
memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

Late binding gives the following exception during the CreateObject
call:
System.Exception: Cannot create ActiveX component.

Since I can create an instance using either method during debug mode,
it seems almost certain that this is a permission or security problem.
I've signed the assembly, signed the ClickOnce manifests, and enabled
the full trust application ClickOnce security setting.  I've even tried
setting what I believe is the corresponding DCOM config properties to
full access for Everyone in the Component Services MMC.

Just to be clear, this really is the entire code:

Module Module1
 Sub Main()
   Dim app As New Application
 End Sub
End Module

Module Module2
 Sub Main()
   Dim app As Object = CreateObject(APP_TYPE_NAME)
 End Sub
End Module

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Mike D