thanks guys, that helps a lot, but now im having another problem, im having trouble installing the newer version of gaim...it says that glib 2 is not installed or incorrectly installed even though i have downloaded it, configured it and installed it!! same goes for when i attempt to intall Gkrellm, what gives? and when i attempt to run .rpm files, i see this window pop up saying it is configuring my system then a few seconds later it dissappears, so i have no idea whether anything happend!...help! im confused