>Using W98, my ICON has changed (on 1 occassion) to
>a seemingly random .ICO automatically selected by
>the OS. Even though the paths are still intact and
>the program launches ok - Why would the icon change?
>thanks in advance.

Was it a permanent change to the associated icon? I haven't seen it do that before, but I have seen it fail to load/display icons for some file types in Explorer when it was almost out of resources. Closing programs and/or a reboot would clear it up.