but it's true you know ...
useability of a system has an inverse relationship with the
system's security ....
it's one of the truisms hammered into us in school ... 
they want it so secure i can't even use it for anything other than
email and word processing..
even that has a limit.. no macros..
excel is also limited that way...
access barely works coz of dunno what..
however, powerpoint works like gangbusters 
we work in an environment where we are tasked to get vendors to
produce "high quality videos" which they do and give it to us on
DVDs and we can't play it on our PCs because they lock the DVD
player function...