Ok, I used that method and it seemed to work fine. I did notice that I never got any of the character files. I thought there was just a cheesy basic one already in it, but I guess not. Plus I only have a dialup at home, and didn't want to wait (I'm on the T3 at my grad school now ) Now I've got another question... can I get around needing an agent at all? All I want is just the capability for a program to read text from a textbox, then blurt it out (minus all the cheesy animation of some character on the screen).