OK i've gotten alot of this to work, however where i seem to be hitting a wall now is the application seems to be unable to create files. Especially tmp files. Is this a permissions issue? Typically once i create the file myself (even an empty file) the program can progress to the next step. But anytime the program itself attempts to create a file i get a nice "unable to create xxx file" and it will either close or not complete the action. Any suggestions?