cracked it!

running fedora core 4, I followed  iarwain\'s instructions and all was going well - until I got errors about openal:

/psclient.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

though it was present in the libs directory - after picking about in psclient.bin I found these lines:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
exec ./psclient.bin \"$@\"

so I ran them from a terminal and bingo!

out of interest, what permissions should be set on psclient and other files in my planeshift directory? they\'re all currently owned by me..

thanks everyone for their help.

I\'d appreciate an answer guys - was my post too stupid to warrant an answer? Please let me know if I should just try and compile from source and not ask here for help...