If the "force reload" question was for me, I just tried it and NO it don't help, BECAUSE I am trying to run EVERYTHING from a CD, NOT from the D:\ dir where the reload looks...
I am trying to run the emulator, the skins, and the roms ALL from a CD... I can do it(by searching for the roms manually), BUT the emu only wants to read settings from D:\ and NOT from the INI file on the CD...
I don't have my system set up yet to be able to put stuff on the HD...
thanks