I'm not sure if litestep caused it but a couple days ago when I installed litestep I noticed I couldn't access the help files for anything.

I'm also wondering what would cause the leftclick and shift+leftclick popup menus to stop working on austerity's bar (which was working before). Now it just beeps when i left click in the places it would allow me to bring up the popup menu at. This is not a big problem due to the small gap around maximized windows, a very nice feature i might add, but it just seemed odd.

well help files appear to be working now. the xp help and support center still doesn't work though. I guess it requires explorer.