thanks suren, can i just check something. its alright to place the player editor folder in a completely seperate area (eg cricket 05 downloads under my documents, and run it from there. rather than placing in the prog files/ea sports/ea cricket 05 folder with all the other .fsh files.
secondly. in the download there is a impBIG file, and there is also a ImpBIG file found in the data folder that comes with the game (next to the data_pc.gob) unless thats been put in there when i put the face pack in there (despite the amount of time ive spent on this forum i still really have no idea when it comes to this sort of stuff).
sorry for stuffing you guys around a bit. i appreciate your help.