Out of curiousity, what was the path to your notes installation?
I think I may know why some people are having an issue with this - for me and all of the machines i have ever worked on, it has found my path and auto-added it for me... and the people I know personally who use this as well. Sometimes its hard to fix a bug if you have not reproduced it. I am beginning to suspect a reason for this and will try a patch in 1.0.5.
Searching NTFs sounds like a good idea. I'll add that ... if there is a release 1.0.5...
I'd like to make a new release, but not having a lot of free time at the moment.
Also I do not develop in Domino anymore. Mainly coding in C# MVC, .NET, Java, Spring MVC, and creating SOA gadgets (ESB mediators, etc), and web dev with hot towel (durandel, breeze, knockout, and kendo ui [or sometimes ext-js]). Quite a departure I guess.
But. I enjoy working with C/C++, so I am sure I will get to it sooner or later.