OK, nevermind, I figured it out.... it had to do with the fact that I DID have spaces in the paths...even though they were relative to the litestep directories... when it was putting the paths in, apparently spaces ANYWHERE in the paths, even if not specifically put in (like with the evars setups) when I told the litestep setup from omar to put in my profile, it caused a problem with the lswallpaper module. I'm running windows 2000 in a domain and I'm using a windows 2000 profile (naturally) which has spaces in the profile path... like "C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\application data\litestep\blah..." so you see there are 2 places where it will have spaces in the path. SO, I uninstalled litestep and reinstalled it using the 'litestep' directory for storing the profiles and it works perfect now. Just to help you all that have had the same problem that I did. :) Cheers!