I have the same problem. When user has Russian name(e.g. Administrator is Администратор in Russian Windows), Podium Free is not able to read/write setup.
Maybe it’s OK with Unicode Podium, but will be Podium Free updated to support Unicode?
But anyway I don’t understand why non-Unicode version has this problem – ANSI_CHAR in Windows API supports Russian…
And it would be great if Podium would store settings in a folder where .exe is, not in AppData.