i think its the new ots installer, the one that comes with the installer "2.1"... i have admin privilleges so that's not a problem... and um... the litestep i'm using is the latest one (i got the files from sourceforge and just overwrite everything that came with the installer...) i'm trying to find another theme that has less modules to isolate and find the reason why my litestep can't work on 2k (btw, the theme works fine on the 98se i have... so i don't think its the problem with the theme... but then again, 98 and 2k are very different...)