i don't know what piece of what i was missing. but there was something in the codes above for my newfile/load codes that was missing.

sooooo..thinking it was possabily mt icon_state = gender, i took 1 last try at it. i started from a friesh slate and re-did the whole code. im not sure what line, lines or possabily single character, i was missing..but it is fixed. the screen changes to where it is supposed to and everything works perfectly so far.

im going to put in the weapon system again, and see(pray) that it works.

only worry i have is that the "unequip" verb won't load when a saved character is loaded.

i'll tell you howit all goes once its put in and all.

i also want to say thank you so much for the patience in helping me. when it is all did-n-done, i will put a pop-up mention of you(the people who helped me most) in the game..although im sure you would prefer money more =P but i only got 30 byondimes and they are almost worthless these days...almost.