Nope, same thing. The wait cursor shows up for a few seconds, but Sense never restarts. I wonder what it is about my ROM that causes this. Thanks for your help Santod. I really appreciate it.
OK, so I got it. The problem seems to be that in my registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items, I have both an "HTC Sense" and a "Sense" key. The Restart Sense.mscr in Dap's cab refers to the "HTC Sense" key. I changed that to just "Sense" and it works perfectly.
That begs the question why do I have these two Sense keys in that string. I'll have to look into it. Thanks again for your help Santod.