I am brand new to the Litestep community. Saw a plug for it on Techtv last week. Anyhow, I downloaded it and love it. I have been trying a lot of themes but some of them don't work, and all of the sudden all the new ones I download wont install correctly. Did I mess something up?

thanks

P.S I get different error messages every time I try to install

uhmmm...won't get much help with that kinda info.

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this sounds like NetLoadModule failed to download different modules in each theme and so the different error messages.

so its one of a few things

1) NLM failed to retrieve module from one or more sites and has bugs in it. (possible but unlike if its as bad as you say we would have heard about it already)

2) Author mistyped module name (likely it happens in about 1-in-10 themes but probably not, happening too much)

3)you deleted NLM ( possible )

so i suggest that you reinstall using the lastest LS installer

And please quote the error messages; without knowing the error message it's a bit hard to do remote debugging. ;)

Just facts:
1) LiteStep modules archive at http://modules.shellfront.org/ isn't up to date
2) New ShellFront site version will show html page when accessing file that does not exist
3) LiteStep (NetLoadModule plugin) required .zip (to continue installation) or nothing (URL not found HTTP header) - to start downloading from the next site. NLM thinks that html page is a queried .zip and trying to extract it
4) of course, extraction failed

So, solution:
a) open your \LiteStep\step.rc
b) comment the line *NetLoadModuleSite "http://modules.shellfront.org/"
c) add ".zip" postfix to the *NetLoadModuleSite "http://www.loose-screws.com/download.php?netloadmodule=" line, i.e. it should be
*NetLoadModuleSite "http://www.loose-screws.com/download.php?netloadmodule=" ".zip"

That's all.