am i bumping an old thread?...just interested to know the latest, what happened with this... anyway, shell32.dll i think should not be more than 9MB, to avoid those 'relocation errors'... regarding the AVIs, original sizes are less than 50 kb each, compressed via Microsoft RLE (circa 2000?). i tried using other codecs like ms-cran, but system won' read. if you can have them uncompressed at around 1mb each, i think would be ok. just my two cents worth...