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smachol, nice try. I forget about Linux security settings all the time. But that was not the problem.

Issvar, I did as you suggested, and I swore at you the whole time. Looking at vBulletin code is not like looking at any code a normal person would write. I would be shocked I could even find a plain old ordinary image tag. And looking for "5stars.gif" is just as useless, since the "5" is really a variable too. Everything is concatenated and variablized to the point that it almost encrypted (but not quite). It is certainly not childs play to dig into it, and from my perpective should be avioded as much as possible.

On my journey thru the source code, what my old wize eyes saw was a reference to an image file called "clear.gif" So besides copying over the stars files, I needed to copy over the clear.gif file. as well. So for you buttonset makers out there, please include some stars and a clear.gif in the zip file to make the images a complete set.

Now this becomes a thread with a clear and posted solution. I hope someday it helps some else who is searching thru the archives. Thank you both for your effort and nudging.