And when I try to set the third drive to my 1TB drive, it borks the skin and I have to reinstall it. 

Nice article about Rainmeter customization/installation for n00bs like me:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31705/beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-to-rainmeter-display-system-stats-on-your-desktop/

RND, it's not a case of replacing dx with rainmeter, it's just a different customizing tool to play around with. And you can use both at the same time. Rainmeter gives those of us without photoshop talent a chance to customize our desktops ourselves using code and sometimes graphics.

Your dx skins will always be appreciated as they look totally different from rainmeter skins. I would love to see some of your dx graphics mixed into a Rainmeter skin or suite- that would be hot!

Some of the renamed zips still don't load. Some error about rainmeter.cfg.

They need to get with a standard .rmskin instead of zips. Some skins load, some don't. I like the potential of the program, but the delivery system needs work. Too confusing to have to manually load anything into the skins folder.

Manually = put the folder in C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins (if you're using windows7). Or, if there's a bunch of files/folders in the zip - make a new folder, name it and unzip it to the same place (this is for mostly for older skins - but sometimes people don't package it up in .rmskin format).

I would suggest that you go into Windows Explorer and look at the Rainmeter folders that are in C:\Program Files\Rainmeter and get familiar with what's there. Just remember that the 'skins' are filed in C:\Users\Admin\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins and everything else is in C:\Program Files\Rainmeter.

For XP, if I remember correctly, it would be For XP C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins.

And remember to REFRESH ALL after adding a new skin if it wasn't a .rmskin install!!! And REFRESH SKIN after editing a skin!!!

I have tried all that, some skins still don't want to show up correctly. My skins are in the same place as Junior's. I'm gonna keep trying, but my opinion is that this software is way too convoluted, and unintuitive. And some say DX is hard...lol.

Well I'm in the same boat as RedneckDude.  I run Windows 7 64 bit and just can't figure this all out.  I tried downloading ABP, got no backgrounds. 

I guess that I just not able to follow the instructions. 

I download the ABP file, it's zipped so I saved it to a folder and then extracted it to the skins folder under Rainmeter.  Was I supposed to do something else? 

Rainmeter really looks like a nice program but I don't think I will ever know.

I have whatever zip program thats come with Windows 7.  I've never downloaded another one.  My RainBrowser does not look yours.  If the zip program is the problem then why do mention of it on the Rainmeter site? 

I'm not picking on anyone or trying to say the Rainmeter is not a good program.  I use all of the Stardock stuff, Rainlendar and Winstep and have no problem downloading and extracting the skins to the correct folder and having everthing work.  So I have to be missing something thing here.  Oh and I am working with the new beta.

Well I decieded that this was not going to get the best of me so I deleted everything for Rainmeter and started with a fresh install of it.

It got the best of me.

Well I tried it again starting from a clean slate.  This time I installed the current version, 1.3 64 bit and had better luck. 

I atleast got Enigma and Gnometer working.  I also downloaded Clock, Frostclock and WeatherBox from the WC Library and got those to work.  I was still not able to get ABP to download correctly.  I think is it intestesting the the three I was able to download from WC had installers. 

I tried the others in WC and couldn't get them installed.

Well I know people that are using the 1.4 beta and it works fine for us. The one thing you need to make sure of is to download the proper version, 32bit or if your system is 64bit download the 64bit version

Yes that was not necessarily directed at you. I was just saying for those that are having problems with the install to make sure they are downloading the proper bit version.  As far as the beta is concerned I use it and have not found even one issue with it but for those that are paranoid of beta's the 1.3 version works fine too.