Good Luck. I ended up changing the owner of the Oracle Service and TNS Listner service on the machine. Changed it to a domain level user that had administrative rights and service rights.

Then, I set the log_archive_dest params and status params the way I wanted. Did a log switch...viola, archive log showed up where I wanted it.

However, I now think I want to keep the Windows SYSTEM user as the service owner. So, I am now looking at setting up the archive repository. It looks fairly simpile. Create and oracle service on another machine. No instance, etc...just the service. Then, use the SERVICE flag of the log_archive_Dest to transfer the files to that spot as my storage location.

Have not got a chance yet to try that out, but it seems fairly straight forward.....famous last words....