OK, I'm not sure why but when I was running the VBS, it was opening 2 copies
of example.xls. I was using the macro...

Sub Auto_Open()
' my code'
End Sub

and once I took this out, it starts the Excel fine (not Read Only).
I'll drop this thread and post me help for now correcting why I my "Auto"
macro is not right seperatly sence it no longet pertains to this Topic