If I understood the post correctly, this issue is a result of purging the props with phalanx. I'm not 100% sure that it is exclusive to Vista. I believe I may have seen this occur on XP as well. My suggestion is to answer 'NO' when Phalanx ask you to purge and to never purge the props. Probably not the soundest advice, but it does work.
Another possibility is to suppress the message. One of the Phalanx files contains a variable of how many days since the props were last purged. You could try replacing this with a -1 or commenting the line out. I myself have not personally tried this option, so your friend or anyone reading this post would be trying it at their OWN RISK.
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