Hey all, I'm sorry for such a newbie question and it's probably totally my stupidity, but here it is.

I have been trying to download different themes and icons and I cannot get them to load. I've read the sticky post that talks about renaming your file extensions to the appropriate ones, but it's still not working.

A specific theme that hasn't been working is WWW Link. When it downloads, it has a .desktop extension. A spacific icon package that hasn't been working is WWW Link. When it downloads it has a .ip extention.

For the theme, I am trying to use desktopX to load it, but when I browse to the desktop to find it, it's not in the window unless I tell it to look for all files. Then if I do that, it wont load the theme anyway.

For the icons, I've been trying to use icon packager to load them, but same thing happens. When I double click on it, the icon packager window opens, but the icons don't load into the packages menu. I've tried unzipping it using winrar, and that gives me two files, one is a .id file that shows the icons in all shapes and sizes in the IP explorer, the other, is a .iconpackage file that I can't do anything with.

Anyway, am I using the wrong apps to try and open these files, or is there something else?