ok first is this at a college or High school?

Well it shouldn't matter tell the admin to change to dev C++ its easier from what i experienced and yes I used borland before very nasty for me at the time same thing for Grasp for java. Get the newest version of Dev c++ from there website and have a good day coding

I just reread the your post Dev C++ doesn't look into anyother folders so thats not the problem.

the only folders used is the ones in side the dev C++ root folder which should all be able to run from my document.

Can you describe the errors a little more does it say linker 'LNK error'? It sounds like its linker error to me also it sounds like you are compiling some where forbidden which is out side of My Document.

try starting new projoect and compile the sample in my document also make sure you have enough space'my college ttu gave us 100 mb of drive space which was our My documents networked to server on campus is to hack into because they made it simple.