The mystery deepens.

I had another crack at it tonight. I had the same result at the start, ctrl/alt/del then launched LSTS from Windows task manager command line. I decided to see what trying to load different themes would do thru LSTS and, for some reason, (omar)Chaos works without a problem. I can then switch to another theme and it works! If I try to start with Chaos loaded as default it eats the files and I have to reinstall it. I still get the run as an app error message but LS doesn't crash after all is said and done. Beats me as to why but it seems to work. I have also disabled the modem since I connect thru the network card when I do plug it in so that may help too.

It's a pain in the ass to boot up or restart but after 2, 3 or 4 tries I eventually have LS on my laptop.

Thanks guys for the help. I'd still like to resolve this problem but I can live with it for now. At least until I reformat and pitch XP for Win2K...

Cheers,
Dave