Bad news. If you're using Windows XP, N.I.C.E doesn't seem to like it. I have no idea why - it just *REFUSES* to load game.dll, not giving any reason - and without game.dll using N.I.C.E. becomes impossible. My debugging is continuing, and I hope GetLastError will return a good result... but given Windows's attitude to error messages (undescriptive), I am not optimistic about the likely results.