Rawr!Sorry Eddie, that was a total waste of your (and my) time. Ruby's 'host_os' value doesn't even contain the substring 'win' in it when running on a Windows machine. It's the fucking compiler the Windows version of Ruby was built with, "mingw32"... I don't know how the fuck that's a "host operating system," but hey, what do I know. Platform, host, compiler, what's the difference, right? :-X Finally dug up a copy of Win7 to test with in a VM -- everything works except that stupid next unread msg feature... I'll update the downloads when I get it fixed -- just letting you know not to waste your time incase you haven't already.