Thank you for your comments. Essentially, within Touchless, there is an introductory orientation module that shows you how it works. When I'm within that demo, I can get Touchless and the Leap Motion device to work perfectly (same within GameWave). But, as soon as I close those windows/modules, the pointer simply doesn't respond to any inputs at all - even though both Touchless and GameWave were activated. I have selected the pages in which I wanted to use Leap Motion (i.e., to ensure it is in focus), but that doesn't make a difference here.
I want to say it is an ActiveX issue because when I open the Touchless demo module, it also won't respond to inputs until I activate ActiveX by clicking on the dialog box that pops-up asking whether or not to activate the same. As noted before, the device is working fine (e.g., in visualizer, in these demo pages), it's just that I can't get it to work outside of these environments.
With that said and assuming my intuition is correct, I don't know how to activate ActiveX in the absence of a dialog box asking me if I want to do so.