Can't find a bunch of stuff

I'm a newbie, so please take pity regarding the following query.

Platform: Fedora Core 7
Amaya: amaya_wx-10.0.1-1.i386-f6.rpm

As a side note, I tried to install:

	rpm -Uvh amaya_wx-10.1-pre-1.i386.rpm 
	error: Failed dependencies:
	        libexpat.so.1 is needed by amaya_wx-10.1-1.i386

The problem is the following:

09:29:40 PM: Error: Impossible to get permissions for file '/styles/tvshows.css' (error 2: No such file or directory)
09:29:40 PM: Error: can't open file '/home/brown/.amaya/0/tvshowscRTI2m' (error 2: No such file or directory)
09:29:40 PM: Error: Can't load image from file '/images/icons/favicon.ico': file does not exist.
09:29:40 PM: Error: can't open file '/images/WTC_RibbonSm.gif' (error 2: No such file or directory)
09:29:40 PM: Error: can't open file '/images/flag.gif' (error 2: No such file or directory)
09:29:40 PM: Error: can't open file '/images/WTC_RibbonSm.gif' (error 2: No such file or directory)
09:29:40 PM: Error: can't open file '/images/Blu-ray_Disc_29x12.png' (error 2: No such file or directory)
[...]

As we all know, for typical browser operation, the base path is figured out by
the browser and web server, when accessed via a browser, via a web server.

When using Amaya with direct file access, that base is no longer there.

How does one tell Amaya what the base path should be in order to find these
items?  How is that going to work with relative paths, i.e., one goes into
a subdirectory and the HTML document finds, for example, images in a directory
called "images," without a slash in front of it?

How does one set the colors of the displayed text in the source area?  The
colors that are there make the text extremely difficult to read, since it is
light colors on a white background.  The color preference page has nothing
regarding the colors for elements, etc.

Lastly is a philosophical question regarding the deprecation of <FONT>.
I make constant use of that element, as it is easier than trying to figure out
how to do it with stylesheets:

<P><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG> AVI files are
640x480/640x360, 29.97 fps<BR>
<FONT COLOR="black"><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG> </FONT>DivX (video), 48 kHz,
MP3 or AC3 Dolby Surround (audio)<BR>
<FONT COLOR="black"><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG> </FONT>MKV files are
640x480/640x352, 29.97 fps<BR>
<FONT COLOR="black"><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG> </FONT>H.264 (video), 48 kHz,
MP3 Dolby Surround (audio)<BR>
<FONT COLOR="black"><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG> </FONT>Use
<A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/" TARGET="NewPage">Video Lan Client</A>
to play these files.

The background color on this page is black.  As can be surmised, the idea
is to align the text, based upon the width of "NOTE: ", no matter what the
user has for the font.  Just how is that supposed to be done via CSS when
there might not be an element surrounding the text?  In this case, I could
set up a STRONG class to do this, but what about when I don't bold the text?

I love the FONT element, I hate to see it go.

My two cents regarding FONT :-)

Thanks for any response and for putting up with the newbie.

MB
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