QA in this case was meanth for Query Analyser 
So when I run the sproc from query analyser, everythig works fine,
If I schedule a sqlagent job the start when sqlagent starts, everything works fine,
When I set the same sproc for startup proc, then the proc to get the registrykey fails 
For the moment the sqlagent job is scheduled to start whenever sqlagent starts (is autostarted on this box) and this workaround has been accepted. 
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