ASP with vb .exe

Very Stuck... Is it possible?????
I've been stuck for a while, I've tried a bunch of stuff to get what I need done... asp, activex dll, standard exe's. I have a prog that opens a text file in excel, screws around w/ it, making charts and stuff, then outputs html code. I've had the code saved in a file, and returned as a string from a dll. Problem = when code is converted to dll, excel doesn't do the things I need it to do. My most recent attempt has been to make the main variable in my exe read from a txt file (to get a path name to the file to be manipulated). I figured I could write a path to a txt file depending on what the user clicked, then call my exe file and everything would be hunky-dory... not so.
I use this code in my asp:


code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dim wsh
set wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
wsh.run("C:\prjStandAlone.exe")
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It sets an instance of the exe in the system processes (tsk mgr), but does nothing. When I try the same thing w/ 2 exe's, it works fine, but not with asp/exe.

I'm open to any ideas on how to do this. although a lot of what I tried doesn't seem to work.

Bottom Line: How can I get my exe to open from asp code (and function as it does when I double click on exe file)????

thanks,

Paul