well the reason I downloaded the indiestep too was because in the readme introduction to the installer, it said this:

- ATTENTION -- There is a conflict of sorts between the beta of 0.24.7
included in the installer and taskbar3.dll on Windows 9x, so you will
experience problems with taskbars. This issue will be resolved with the
next beta of 0.24.7. Until that time, Windows 9x users should use the
latest indiestep build available:

http://shellfront.org/lsdev/ls-0246/indiestep-shellfront-2003.05.17.zip



ill post the error in a bit.