Before we start, know that this problem take an inordinate amount of time, and I will be glossing over a lot of my process in solving this. I will hit the highlights, but as with many things like this, practice makes perfect. Lets see what they give us.
This program seems to be rather delightfully twisted! Can you get it to accept a password? We need it to get access to some Daedalus Corp files.
And the hint,
>This program appears to be "packed." Fortunately, it's packed with a common packer, and no trickery was performed - so you should be able to just unpack it with the same packer.