Here's a status report as of Feb 26: With Bill's wrappers, I can get remote debugging to work, but local debugging still freezes because of thread issues in windows. I am growing very tired very fast with that operating system and would definately appreciate any help getting Mr. Guid to play nicely with it. Until then however, I cannot spend too much time concerning myself with the issue. For all the windows users who wish to use Mr. Guid, I am sorry. My only recommendation right now is to get ruby running in cygwin. I will probably tinker with that and post my results and or HOWTO's. Sorry for all the inconvenience.