.manifest problems-Collection of common programming errors

exe -manifest [email protected] -outputresource:$@;2 to embed the .manifest’s, after which I delete the .manifest’s. I can run these applications fine on the computer I built them, but on any other computer, I get the error “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)”. If I run in msdev.exe (VC6), I also get the message “Could not execute: Path not found(Win32 error 3)”, and in the debug pane, I see “LDR: LdrpWalkImportDescriptor() failed to probe for its manifest, ntstatus 0xc0150002”.What am I missing to get this to work?