Hey Danny, Thanks! Your right, it is brilliant; excellent method. I now have an exact dulpicate of my live site on Mona. For anyone else who might copy a Joomla site onto Mona with DannyH's method, here are a few minor clarifications: > 6) Place your backup ZIP folder inside your empty website folder along with the Kickstart ZIP, make sure there is nothing in there Since I already had a copy of my site in a folder in "Uniserver>udrive>www" called "joomla," I created a new folder in "Uniserver>udrive>www" and named it "sitedemo" > 8) Open your browser and go to your NEW website http://localhost I pointed my browser to: http://localhost/sitedemo > 9) You will then see 3 files, Your backup zip, kickstart zip and your Kickstart.php click on Kickstart.php and follow the instructions on the screen After clicking on Kickstart.php, from the dropdown menu I selected my site backup ZIP (the default on the dropdown menu was the Kickstart ZIP). In the site restoration process with JoomlaPack, I made sure I specified the newly created database, user, and password, as opposed to the default entries from my live site. Thanks again Danny, - nojiri