loosely coupling manifest file in VC6

Hi all,
We have started porting our application to accommodate vista security
changes. We have a unique case. A particular exe can run in both
server environments like windows 2003/2008 server and clients like xp/
vista. In the server env we want to run the executable as an
administrator but in the client environments it should be run with
invoker privileges. Is there any mechanism to loosely couple the
manifest file with the exe. i.e i dont want to embed it using the
resource files. i have tried to use it by placing the manifest file in
the same folder as the executable. the name of the manifest file was
"myexe.exe.manifest". Any help would be greatly appreciated


P.S:The version of application has been built in VC6

Regards and TC