thank you once more, theala, for bothering. Really appreciate it.

dl'd Pseudo, but was told by a friendly window that "file is not executable" and further "Psuedo can only access Cocoa and Carbon apps, not documents or other files" or something like that.

Have you tried it in Pseudo, or did you just do it in terminal? In any case, if you knew of a workaround or another way, I am grateful.

By the way, thank you for: "If you don't have it, then I highly recommend Mac OS X: The Missing Manual by David Pogue", I'll look into it.

Oh, and the windowserver.plist file didn't overwrite, it just made a copy ending with an extra ".1"

I have respect for skillful and helpful people in this two-dimensional world. Thanks Amy