I don't understand your statement about /usr/lib/, /pd and /pd-extended... I was talking about pd-extended source tree. Do you source compile it or get it as a binary ?

I sorted it out now. i updated the synaptic package manager repository links and downloaded 0.42.5 pd-extended and edited the .pdrc and everything is cool. before there was the 0.43.1 pd-extended folder AND a pd folder and i think they were conflicting. i deleted everything and started over and it worked. thank you for your help!

onyx