Well, I got FRUA working and I'm having a feeling of nostalgia/Deja vu. This was an awesome program to begin with, even before hacks and someone deciding to "upgrade" to 32 bit art in a windows environment.
I just started poking around in FRUA. As for UA Shell, the link you gave me doesn't go anywhere so I browsed around the rosedragon page on my own (this is where I continually get quotes for tricks from UANLs). But I guess I'll have to wait since I cannot find anything that has UAShell in its description.
I find these links, none of which have a utils or utilities folder:
http://frua.rosedragon.org/dir.htm (parent dir)
http://frua.rosedragon.org/pc/ (still no utils)
oh well, I'm sure the ppl at the UA yahoo list can inform me of any changes. As for now, you gave me the key to the city with the page that gave me access to FRUA in the first place (kinda sucked having the 3rd FRUA disk unable to install due to file corruption, so again THANKS

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ST
ps, this is sooo schweeet!