Try to verify the file is actually at the place you think it is:
//echo -a $isfile("c:\documents and settings\(my name here\my documents\unzipped\trivbot2001v2_4[1]\trivbot2001v2\lst\questions.lst")
If this says $true that it is there, and you still can't read it:
//echo -a $read("c:\documents and settings\(my name here\my documents\unzipped\trivbot2001v2_4[1]\trivbot2001v2\lst\questions.lst",nt,1)
...then you would have a mystery. If you can't open the file with notepad either, that likely indicates you don't have permissions set to allow your user-id to write to the file contents. Another possibility could be that the folder itself has permissions set to deny writing into the folder, or else you ssomehow created a folder named questions.lst
