well, that tool works cleanly and at least shows up in a toolbar somewhere. I did load the thomthom installer widget, which is good. I think the biggest part of my question has to do with the fact that some of these plugins don't really make themselves evident in any sort of "hey, here I am when you want to use me" sort of way. I think they are loaded, and come up when contextually appropriate.

now, if I can build some attributes into a couple of components i'll be a little more satisfied.

I would rather repair screwy settings / install than wave a magic wand. But if we can't quickly determine an issue spot, I'll buy the band aid.

thanks for looking at it.

Tried all of TIG's ideas as well, nothing seems to fly. RBZ stuff works as expected, RB doesn't show up anywhere, even after being sipped, retagged, deleted, redeposited, SuP restarted.....

@gaieus said:

me the zip extension to rbz and you can import it from preferences.

I just tried this method. doesn't work.