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I just got a new Gateway machine loaded with Vista SP2. I've spent the last week and got all the games back to exile to run on the system.

In the Myst online forum there is a long discussion about Loading Myst 5 End ofAges on a vista system.
http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=269599
Erik posts the link to a zip file that contains a patch. http://cho.cyan.com/patches/Myst5InitFiles.zip

I tried this using the directory from the readme in the zip and it didn't work.

Before you follow this instructions, you should have installed Myst V with the dvd-rom.

Copy the folder in the zip file (Myst V End of Ages) to:
C:\Users\<your windows username>\AppData\Local

That's it! Myst V should now start up properly.

(If you can't find the folder, remember that AppData is a hidden directory.
Turn on hidden files, or enter the folder path directly into the address bar of Windows Explorer.)

I poked around and found the following directory.
C:Users\<my windows username>\AppData\Local\Myst V End Of Ages\init

When I dropped the zip contents into the init directory the game started working.

The pathname in the instructions works fine. You just have to unzip it there preserving the full folder structure already present within the zipfile. Which is what you ended up doing indirectly.

Unzipping with full folder structure is the default setting of most zip programs.

Glad you got it working eventually! D'Lanor is right.