Though the real problem is most likely me being too dumb to see the solution.

The first one: The default skin works fine, but whenever I install new ones something goes wrong. The dlls don't download, the dlls aren't found, the text is unbelievably unreadable, my computer locks up before I manage to see what the problem is... Something like that. The first time I tried installing them as .zips, then later trying to install them as .lsz, the problems don't change.

The second one: I have my default music program set as winamp3, at first it wasn't really working when I tried to link it with the audio player already in LiteStep... I fiddled with a few things, though I don't really remember what, and managed to get the buttons to work, but I can't get the song name or any of that to appear in the space above them... Though I'm really only assuming that it's for that.

Yeah, so, could anybody help? I used the LiteStep installer v3.0.2, and am running Windows XP.

1 - try some other themes, and post which ones are having problems... theres probably a 99% chance that the problem is with the themes you are trying.

2 - if you are using austerity (the default theme) there is setting in themevars.rc where you can set the evar:

changing that to false, as well as changing your $AudioPlayer$ evar to the location of winamp3 should fix it.

before you start fidding with things you should look through the readme and through themevars.rc to see if the theme already has this capability built in, since fiddling can cause things to stop working if the theme expects certain things to be true and you change them manually.

Great, winamp works now. Thanks.

As for the themes, I tested them all out again and got this:

Advance4Pro: (Error: Could not locate module.) Many, many times.
Austerity: Works fine.
Breeze: Prompted me to download something, nothing seemed to download. Only loaded it partially.
Dragable: Unreadable text, and a few dll errors.
GreyStep: (Check.Step.Rc: slidertrack.bmp or Slider_Handle.bmp) twice, and (Bar image not found: cpu.png) ...And then a few other "Bar image not found" errors.
M01: (Variable "iconsdir" not defined. Expression: $iconsdir$open.ico)
M02: Seems to work fine.
MediaMonksDOTcom: (This application has failed to start because cc3250mt.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.) and (Error: Could not locate module.)
Smog: Prompted me to download something, nothing seemed to download. Only loaded it partially.
tenebrae: Doesn't do anything, prompts me to load the default theme, then locks up and I am forced to restart.
Thin: Prompts to download some things, fails, some errors come up. (Error: Could not find intModuleEx().)

Are you sure you read the themes' readmes? Especially the small text issue is usually explained in there... all you have to do is install the font(s) the theme comes with. Then again themers could just use LSFont. (/plug) :P

or, themers could specify a font= line in the theme.ini

I skimmed the readmes of most of them, though I probably should have paid more attention to that. I'll figure that whole thing out.

But, uh, another problem that I just now realized: Nothing new is added to the System Tray whenever I open a new program, it's fairly frustrating. Any ideas for that one?

I've been fiddling with system_tray.rc, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing.

hmmm... im assuming you mean whenever you open a program that puts an icon in the system tray... do all the programs that run on startup get added to the systray correctly?

possible solution - have you ever installed desktopx? check your list of running processes to see if there is one called trayserver.exe, and if there is, use msconfig to disable it.

also, check your themevars.rc to make sure that scripting is turned on, the systray wont autosize if it is turned off.

Aha, trayserver was the problem. Thanks a lot.

@ilmcuts: lsfont doesn't works with rainmeter

Smurth: Oh. Well no one told me before. =) What if LSFonts is loaded before rainmeter? Or are you using rainmeter's standalone version?

Of course, I ran rainmeter as a module and I guess I loaded it after lsfont (I'm talking about loadmodule lines order). But, hey, I don't know if loadmodule order will change anything with rainmeter (I mean changing order doesn't change rainmeter's z-order, for example)