Yeah, I was curious to see if it would work for me. I've had a donation-ware screensaver/desktop changer (http://gloss.ildica.com/) for the opensource Gallery photo hosting project (http://gallery.menalto.com/) available on my website for about 3 years now. Out of about 1900 downloads (based off Google Analytics) I've probably had about 10-15 donations in total, but averaged over the time I've made it available, it's mostly covered my hosting costs, which is what I thought would be a nice goal. My motivations were almost the same as yours.

One of the compression options in the later versions of WinZip is "Maximum (Portable)" which is supposed to be a "standard" format that other tools can read. You could try rebuilding your ZIP file using that option. HTH, Conor GLoSS: Screensaver for Gallery 2