mxExtension won't load

Network security is putting the screws on the development group. Our main domain account no longer has admin rights, so we have a local user with admin to run visual studio. We have a bunch of ArcMap customization started in the 9.3 days before addins. The problem is the MxExtensions, we can compile and register them fine as the local admin account. The load fine starting ArcMap under the network account. The problem is ArcMap does not load the extensions under the local admin account. That means if I start my app in debug mode (which starts ArcMap under the same account as VS) it doesn't load the extensions and I can't do any debugging...
Any one encounter this? have a solution?
cheers.