bonestructure, does the Aladdin Expander run at all? It should put a single window on screen which says "Drag and drop archives and encoded files here". Does it do this? I just ran through installing the Expander on a Win98 system, and it worked for me. I went to www.stuffit.com (which takes you to Aladdin Systems), to the "Free Downloads" link. I downloaded a file named "Alex50.exe". Double clicking it installed the decompression program in Program FilesAladdin Systems. Clicking on Expander.exe opens the window where you drop encoded files.