Well deuce, you sir are a genious, i thought i wasnt going to be able to have litestep so i tested out other shells like geoshell(eww!!) and aston(too much like explorer eww!!) and i realized that litestep IS the shell i want and so i gave it a go once again and wat do u know, it worked, YAY!!! i feel such like a n00b now =P

i have no idea wat causes this problem, but re-installing litestep seemed to fix the problem