Firstly ignore the last message, a make clean etc seemed to fix things (I have included make clean in my cvs script now.. =). The purpose of me updating was actually to include a few new artifacts for Joel. It would appear my png lib is fairly rooted right now, so this may be a symptom of that. I finished a burning whip (AKA the Burning tail) and included all the appropriate files and ran make collect etc. When I finally got the server working I poped one in the city and tried to take alook. When the image was just about to appear on screen *BANG* the SDL client died. ERROR on BlitSurface in file gx11.c line 6294 Surfaces must not be locked during blit I suspect it may still have an alphachannel, does the new SDL blitter support this (like the GDK one did?). dnh