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wierd thing happened....
i changed the theme folder name and tried all that but it didn't work. it would just come up as XOOPS theme with none of my site on it so i changed them back. then i emptied the rootdir\templates_c folder after i backed it up. then nothing would come up, just a blank screen so i restored that folder. so i was going to have my website provider do a restore of my whole server but before they did anything the site started working fine so they did not do a restore.
this is the only thing that i don't like about Xoops, it's very unpredictable. i've found this to be true in alot of cases but i'm not an expert at this so i'm still learning.
thanks for all the help guys i really do apprecate it.