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Okay, although neither my windows indexer nor my commercial search software could find the proper references to starrating.gif I just remembered that there are several, and not just 1 single css file to edit. Looked under css and found the rating.css file. Alright, getting somewhere now. Still having problems though and could really use some help with this!

By changing the heights and widths I was able to make my modified starrating.gif file appear almost properly on the site. I say "almost" because no matter what I do, I can't seem to fit all 5 "stars" where they belong. Yes, I've changed the width constraints in the rating section of the viewvideo tpl file as well, but still the 5 images (replicated) won't show up.
The greyed out image appears automatically about 3 and 1/3 times.
The selection (gold) image appears exactly 4 times - right where it belongs, on top of the grey.
The "done that" (green) image appears, like the grey one, 3 and 1/3 times.
BTW: The green alt text shows up properly too ... 1 out of 5 ... 2 out of 5 ... 3 out of 5, but stops after 4 ...

The image height for each replication is 34 px and the image width is 30 px.
I changed everything accordingly in the rating.css while comparing changes to a saved copy - uploaded in binary - but can't get all 5 replicated images to show up. Does anyone have any experience with this or know what it is that I'm missing? I think perhaps the ratings block needs to be sized ??? somewhere, but I can't figure out where to do it. It doesn't have anything to do with the viewvideo tpl because all that can be changed there is the width constraint of the rating div ... and I've already done that. HELP !!!
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