I really, really appreciate your efforts to assist, but unfortunately I am not sure I am sophisticated enough to understand your advice. Are you saying that I should delete everything that i have in my C: program files/dragonage (deosnt say bioware) in the override file and work from the files "\[user's documents]\Bioware\Dragon Age\packages\core\override". If that is the case, all the mods that I downloaded for the retail disc game are there and were working previously... but not in this game!! Furthermore, interesting enough there are no screenshots from my current (Origin downloaded) game in the screenshot file. "Getting those mods to work requires understanding how to update the "CharGenMorpCfg.xml" file. Most authors provide the appropriate .xml as an additional file with their mod, but if the player is using more than one such mod then they'll need to integrate those entries into a single set. See: Using Dragon Age Mods for Dummies." Finally, the instructions that came with the two mods - more hairstyles and dreamy alistair indicate that I was to place the files in the packages/core/override folder. I do not recall making any manual changes to these files in my previous game and they both worked... so unfortunately, I remain confused... :wallbash: Again, I do appreciate your patience and assistance!