Boreas, you are a god among men. it worked!
i only used the quotes because the other onleftclick events in the insight theme.rc where in quotes. finaly! a way to pipe parameters to "shortcuts" in ls. thanks a bunch.
pretty soon i could make my own theme...minus the art. i am codemonkey (despite this little hiccup) not an artmonkey.
again thanks for the help all of you.

wergeld