I was thinking that for the search tabs, the librarys, the monitor screen, there would be an image which would be static. that is it would not move when you scrolled. the there would be another static image on the d/l section. those would be easily changeable to any normal user(well i am speaking of if it ever gets this far) whilest you would be able to (if you were experienced enough) add pictures and image files to the frame of the whole app. that would work (in my mind anyways) much like skinning winamp or you could keep it the way it is but just allow image support instead of RGB and HEX colors only. mind you I understand that this ranks lower on the list than actual usabililty, and this might not be very easy because, as you say, the whole thing would need to be modded. well for now I am just broswing the code and seeing what it is doing. maybe i can find a wau to allow for a background...