thanks for your responses... that little xDesktop tutorial write-up made it very easy to implement. Just trying to figure out how to change the font color of the desktop icons now.. think I can figure that out.

It turns out the audio file that was playing wasn't even part of the theme, it was Opera's voice recognition software kicking in. The theme has a feature where it blinks scroll lock when there is another window that needs attention... for some reason Opera was interpreting some type of audio input and kept playing an "error" wave file.

Turns out the theme has an option somewhere to change the clock settings to 12-hour time, thankfully.

The winamp controls don't use text, but I'm going to go searching the .rc files for it...

thanks again,

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