Hello again. I am using pidgin as my IM.It has a standard aray of smileys.I go into tools, custom and it has my downloaded smileys in manager. It asks for short cut text. I put in some random symbols and hit add. but when I type this in pidgin, my random symbols appear not my smileys.I know this is low ball stuff, but pclos is running great so I don't any other problems at this time. Thanks