thanks for the info stud.
I did finally get it to finish compiling fully after two days and seven or eight aborted attempts. I dont know why it worked this time since my syntax and direction following abilities were exactly as before. I did have to eventually do it under XP instead of vista and when I got an error the last time about not being able to make a certain folder almost right away, I stopped the compile, clicked on clean compile and did it again- the second time there was no error and it finished the compile. Took about 26 minutes with a 4200+ x2 using Headkaze's compiler.