Wow. I am simply amazed. I expected to have no replies, or at least nothing for a week or two.

Hats off to the community. I'm a little upset by the snide comments, when I truly was looking for information, not asinine comments, but the information was also forthcoming, and that's awesome.

I appreciate everyone's constructive input, and I apologize for my blatant rudeness in my initial post. Having done a little more research in the meantime, I think I'm going to stick with my Ubuntu system for eyecandy, but i'll be downloading this and installing it to play with on my XP Home machine (not sure if I want to risk upsetting the applecart on the XP PRo 64 system).

The screenshots I have found are awe-inspiring, in many cases, and I'm definitely looking forward to skinning my menus, and seeing what other tweaks are available. As for experience with shell replacements, I ran mIRC as my shell on my Windows 3.1 machine, oh so many years ago... The scripting available at the time made mIRC much more effective as a shell than progman could ever have hoped to be. LiteStep is apparently the same idea, taken to a new level (not to mention not being a subfeature of a program intended for completely different purposes). I'm looking forward to learning its capabilities and limits.

Again, thanks for all the constructive replies, and please accept my apologies for not digging deeply enough in my initial quest for answers.

As an aside, I still think the front page of this site could use a little more info on it.