hey final troubleshooting post by me, i hope lol, my game is up and running. i tried to edit the game so that it would bypass the monstersound.slf sound files, but soon found out that i would have to go in and manually program it (major pain in the butt) to ignore each and every sound file (lots and lots of em lol!) so bottom line i would like to personally thank AVATAR for going way out of his way to make the file available to me.