okay, thanks... at least i know i was doing something right, just apparently my computer is being blah.... see, i do rename file and tack on the .lwtp at the end and windows is leaving it as being the same type of file but with that tacked on... the extension doesn't change, so like if i have a file folder or zip or whatever (tried both when i was trying to figure out how to get it to work) no matter what it wasn't changing (ie, rename file and type whatever_theme.lwtp and it would remain as whatever file it started out as but just with the .lwtp at the end of the file's name)...... sooooo, i don't know what i'm doing wrong, or maybe it's just something with xp that i'm not getting how to make it change the file type.