okay...

I uninstalled the frameworkx and restored all the way back to the very first.

All seems fine except the icons do not seem to be paying attention to the size I set for them...nor the spacing...but now thinking about this...is this different than XP in that XP was for the desktop and Vista might be for the icons within documents (like in Windows Explorere)?

All seems well...we'll see.

I had installed Frameworkx...but do not know what verion...I assume it was the latest.

Oh, and I downloaded CCleaner and it seems to have done a nice job. I was getting blue-screens (at least one per day) and I haven't had one yet.