In short, there's more than one way to do it,
so persevere until you find one.
I have a feeling that if Nick or I were sitting next to Kate we could 
figure this out in a minute (although I've been wrong before).  I assume 
Kate has, at some point, saved a word or excel or whatever file while 
working on a public machine, and wherever she saved it must be a place she 
has write access to.  At ND, it would be the H: drive.  Kate's place must 
have something comparable, unless everybody just always carries floppy 
disks around with them.  Once Kate knows what she has write access to it is 
a simple matter to tell Stata to look for her downloaded ado files there.