ty i'm used to borland fclt not msvc. i had the same error with my first release (borland doesn't have debug releases, they just ran on other systems).

i hit clean, build project from the build menu, but i'm guessing i need to close the system and restart because msvc is a bit dippy. so i'll try it again, i really appreciate that comment, because my first game was up for like 60 days before someone told me... :p