I did that and all I got was strings of \ns.

Speaking of your deskicons component - I downloaded lock.solid today to try to figure out how you manage component copying - haven't really had a good chance to look at it yet.
I've been trying to do my own component thing for a while (remember the "sticky" post?) with textedit but it's not really working. My problem is that the component I'm copying uses textedit to save its own evars, and I need to do a sort of meta-textedit. But I can't figure out how to stop textedit from parsing the internal @signs, so it's ending in the wrong place and not really doing anything. Is textedit the right module to use for this?