im not sure im catching all that your saying, but i use win ace to open rar files, and i never have a problem.....dont even hae to extract...they play from the program itself....and no offense, but if the file is 4+gs, im sure you got the file and not the images...which are .img files.....might try winace...if were on the same page...if not just tell me to shuddap...lol......clay