please note, (so used to doing this i forgot to note) the "/wavs" file ends up in the /usr directory on all .tar.gz's and rpm's don't know why. if i'm not mistakened, the "/wavs" should end up in teh /home/users/.licq/wavs so usually i just copy this dir from the /usr default location to the /home/user/.licq/wavs then, the links inside the /home/users/.licq/licq.conf file pointing to the /wavs dir don't work. so i edit the following: before > Message = ~/.licq/message.wav after > Message = /home/user/.licq/message.wav And then it works. The only reason i can see someone doing this to begin with is to prevent sound from working and crashing. but even then, one could just rem those sound links out in the linux.conf instead of moving the directory. go figure. -- ------------ Sent from: Lattitude (deg): 32.7130 Longitude (deg): -117.1530 Altitude (ft): 410.0 GMT to Local (hrs): -8.0 (daylight savings enabled) ------------ Created with Linux-Mandrake 7.0! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ Currently Beta Testing Mandrake Ver >7.0