Landon,
first of all, you can use QV Personal Edition to create any sample documents, or even production documents. You can't open existing documents, created by others.
If you have a local QV license key, you need to ask your IT to create your own image that includes the license. Otherwise, you'll have to apply license every time you log in, and that, I agree, is quite annoying...
Another possible solution is to add logic to the notwork script that is used when you log in, and populate the LEF file automatically. I haven't tried it myself, so I'm walking on a shaky ground here, but I think this can be done...
cheers,
Oleg Troyansky
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