"i'm tha man..." :D indeed!

(I think) You can use jdesk to only set the work area:
1) Set jDeskWorkArea to what you want in your step,
2) Unload jDesk after it sets the work area.

You can do 2 various different ways, but the one I know of is to use lslua's lslua.init() function to !NetUnloadModule jDesk

lslua.init() gets called when lslua is finished loading, so aslong os you load lslua after jdesk it should work.

Good luck, and I think this is the right place to discuss your problem ;)

remeber: Litestep can do heaps of stuff