This is currently a very big learning experience for me as i have never publicly released any mod or items for any game, ever....
At the moment i'm just working toward bringing a little more variety to this already great game by reviving some great items from other people that i loved on sight and had to have in my game.
I don't even have wings 3D
I haven't even looked at the sections of the item editor that deal with menu's and until recently i thought a python script was written for snake extra's in movies (still don't understand it to be honest) lol
Basicly, all the recompiling i have done so far has been with
Mtarini's open Brf and Morgh's item editor (knew i forgot a credit somewhere sorry) and trial and error.
I have just gotten hold of the freely available texture editor "gimp" however and it has featured heavilly in the stuff i'm working on for release later this week.
(Very glad to hear everything is working fine for you by the way, very reasuring lol)