purge.bat troubles

Hello all. Although I've used ProE for three years, I've only just discovered this website. Sad, huh?

Forgive me if this has been answered and I just lacked the skills to find it. I searched the CAD and Sys Admin categories and found similar questions, but following the suggestions provided did not solve my problem.

I can not get purge.bat to work in my new installation of WF5. Apparently lots of folks have had difficulties setting up the right-click menu but I can't even get it to work by cutting and pasting into the desired directory and running it from there.

My load point: C:\Program Files\proeWildfire 5.0.

My working directory is on a shared engineering drive within our network. I have customer sub-directories within the main work directory.

My purge.bat is as delivered, I haven't tampered with it. From what I can tell, it's identical to the purge.bats in our WF2 and WF4 installations.

I've tried the different commands inside the "folder options->file types->advanced->new->action->application....." that have been suggested in these forums but it's still non-functional.

One of the posts suggested add a system variable pointing to the load point. I did that, but maybe got the syntax wrong(?).

I've tried copying a work directory out of the shared drive and onto my C:\ and running purge - both the cut and paste method, and the right-click. No dice.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I fear I've gotten so frustrated over this that I'm now missing something obvious.