(PLEASE DONT BITE MY HEAD OFF FOR ASKING THE FOLLOWING!) Can Litestep be used to provide shell replacement for file management windows or is it just for the taskbar and popups? If it can be used, where can I find some good examples or tutorials? Thank you all.

Simply...no...it is not designed to be a file manager.

At the top of this page is a thread called "file manager replacement"...

Read through that, and it'll offer you a few possibilities.

Personally, I use Directory Opus as it's pretty customizable.