John, you saw clearly into what I was doing wrong. I had been pointing nLite back at my preconfigured directory. I am guilty of being a lazy cd swapper. I do have VPC on my home PC since it can handle the split resources, but I had been running nLite off a work PC with limited computing power off it. I think I see what I was doing with reusing my i386 preconfigured. My cd's were getting most recent setting, as well as previous settings. Only the settings that stated true statement, would override the previous setting. So, on a previous install I disabled a feature. After I enabled part of its features but not all. Since some of the features didn't answer true, it used the history setting since a present setting wasn't available. kk, note to self, use fresh OS cd's. test vcd on old dell. love this program, saves so much time and prevents general annoyances.