hey Chief, I read the instructions right down to the last letter and blow me down with a feather, the installation worked like a charm, I never had the jsgme and config files, I did exactly what I read and bingo I struck gold first time, now the game loads beautifully without any hiccups, without your feedback, I reckon I would still be uninstalling/reinstalling blah blah blah lol, so thanks a million for your help.
Though I do have a question, when I was activating the mods via the jsgme, well there were a few mods that represented themselves as already been altered? and that enabling them may have adverse affects on my game, so I never activated them, was that the right thing to do? if not, how would I get around to fixing them so my game is not affected and if I did activate them, would my game become unstable?
thanks again