THANK YOU *bows* lol you have made a very anal retentive tablet user a very happy man. lol if youre ever around indianapolis , i owe you a beer. ended up having to use the xterm method , when i brought up the permissions screen in the filemanager it was all kind of distorted , you couldnt click or select anything. now that i have a bit more insight as to how to copy files to where i want and such theres a few other things i want to try to change ... startup sound , and the stupid nokia hands logo *blehhh* if you have any idea in what directories these might be located ill owe you another beer lol