Hmmm. Well, it started happening quite awhile ago. I have just been blaiming it on RAM. I unloaded OB and installed the new one. I was kind of hoping the fix was for this problem. I thought it was bigger skins. But last night I tried Nicely and Suspiria. Nicely is larger and it worked fine. It hung on Suspiria. I kind of wonder if it is a unique file or something, because I it kind of happens a lot with Boxxi's skins. But if I close nearly everything down (before I have too much trouble) I can get them loaded. That is what makes it seem like a RAM problem, but when I look at my meter... well it says I have enough.

I really have no problems with most of the stuff, but installing and updating OB is daunting for me. All my work gets erased. I may have to do that, though. Thank you.

I had no problem importing Suspiria. It suffers from the white on the sides of the menu panels because it needs transparency and Objectbar doesn't seem to be able to do this properly. If you use Regions=1 and turn off transparency, it will show without white or pink, but Menu comes up funny when clicked (seems to not show all at once, but sort of one panel at a time)and sometimes flashes black.

But, as to your problem, I'm couldn't help because I couldn't reproduce the error. Sorry.

I have a very low end computer (I built it 3-4 years ago), but it does have 256mg of ram. I don't know if ram could be your problem or not.

Thanks for all the effort jebland! I feel more confident about updating and reinstalling OB now.

Do you think that the XP importing problem relates to some subtle difference between XP home edition and XP professional? I am using XP home. Maybe the importing route is a little more circuitous for home if the skin was made with XP professional in mind (and therefore RAM becomes more of a problem)? Are there differences in the way they skin?

Another thing I wondered is if it matters where you have your associations assigned? Mine are kind of scattered (or maybe it doesn't even matter with an application).

I really should be able to care for the hard parts of my computer myself.

If I were going to invest in a PC reference book ($$ is kind of a factor) what one would be good for a novice?

If I were going to keep up, what magazine would be good to read?

If I were going to work inside my machine, what minimal tools should I have... my brother kind of tied himself to the tower with a kind of bungee cord/clip device. Do I need that?

How much RAM makes a computer more than satisfied (more like happy)? How much RAM thrills it?

um... sorry so many questions.

Thanks! I will make use of those links. I usually am a real easy mark in a store. It would be like me to come home with some kind of book (or likely some fancy whole set) that was way over my head and "essential" if I went out shopping for something.

I guess since I live in the middle of a big puddle I don't need to get a grounding strap. As nervous as I got last time I opened a tower, static electricity was far from being a problem....

Maybe since it is close to Christmas and since we both can use a boost... I will seek to "thrill" my computer. I am definitly running on minimal now, I hadn't realized that.

Thanks again.

I know what you mean about books.

Well, about the memory, I go everywhere by bus. Last time, after I gave up trying to get it in myself, I hauled the thing across town and onto a bus.... when I got there I got into a big fight with the store. One guy had promised I could bring it in, the one at the counter said that was wrong. They finally agreed to take it and the next thing I knew the counter guy came out gloating.... he said my computer had serious software problems. Nothing at all was working. Well, I knew it was in good shape and I just wanted to gather it up and take it home safe. But he wouldn't let it go, and kept ranting on about how bad shape it was in. How much it would cost..."IF" they could rescue it. Finally he said "it don't even have icons on the desktop". Well, you get the picture. I just told him that I never have had icons on my desktop and please just give my computer back. Finally someone else took over. I just couldn't face all that again, and this tower is even bigger. I would rather learn to build my own than deal with some "expert" like that again. This was at a real well known place.

Your skin (JWood https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?searchtext=Jwood&sort=updatedate&order=Descending&library=1) is beautiful! I grew up in the wilderness, far away from any city. I miss the deep woods almost all the time and this is a good reminder. I think more people like skins than comment. I'm not a skinner or anything, so about the only way I can give back is to make sure people know how much their work is appreciated.