as for the Litestep issue, I agree, it was probably just a bad theme. let LS back as the shell, and just choose a different one. The errors you were describing (referring to icondir) suggests the theme is missing some var's, or the var's are hardcoded to a specific dir, or something along those lines. try a different theme, and it should be all set. as for the visual style problem...now that's just WEIRD. I've never seen anything like that. and if I do, i'll probably run away screaming like a little girl. dman haunted PC's freak me out every time...