thanx gob. i did get it in the right place. now i am having probs just getting online. i have windows xp, have had it for a week or so and cant log into dune online. i used to have windows 98 se, and had very few probs getting to play online games. but i just cant do it with xp. it just goes to the connecting screen and stays there, i have to end up hittin cntrl,alt,del and end task on d2k and restart the pc and try again. any sugestions?