.firetheme import weirdness (was Re: An Incoming Message Sound Adventure)

On Apr 26, 2004, at 15:31, John Arnold wrote:

> Once upon a time a happy Fire user upgraded to 1.0, which he really 
> enjoyed. He decided that he would set his incoming message sound to 
> his favourite sound, as he had done easily with Fire 0.32 through the 
> preferences pane. Our intrepid user went through the following steps 
> on his adventure.

[adventuring to get a .firetheme created snipped]

> 5. Opening the preferences pane in Fire, he looked around until he 
> found the place to add his theme file. He did so, and quickly clicked 
> on its check box in the list to activate it. The check box became 
> checked, and then unchecked. He tried again, perhaps a half dozen 
> times, frustrated by the message "Contains: (null)." He hopefully 
> looked in the Sounds tab to see if he could select his theme, but to 
> no avail.
>
> 6. Finally, the user opened up the Fire.app package, found the 
> imrcv.mp3 and ring.mp3 files, renamed them to something else, copied 
> in his AIFF sound file as imrcv.aiff and ring.aiff, and restarted 
> Fire. Hooray, his sound worked! His grand adventure was finally over. 
> His only wish was that the adventure had not been necessary.

I reached stage 5 without trying 1-4 by trying to install a couple of 
.firetheme's referenced on the forum & on (one of) Fire's email lists; 
when I got the results you're getting, I dived into the Fire.app 
package and manually placed my newfound .firetheme files in 
Fire.app/Contents/Themes/ ... at which point I could toggle the themes 
on and off in Fire's preferences. See if your .firetheme works when you 
do that - that way, you'll know the .firetheme works, and it is in fact 
the adding of themes that's gone wonky.
Slán,
Liam