Thats all fine and dandy, but if your ini was completly cleared, then u start mirc, you will have the default entries. Now ur just rewriting the previous backup's settings with default entries. You may want to consider having it on exit. This way, you've done your work, you want to save it, and you *should* at this point realise whether you have yourself a good .ini file or not, or one that has been completly redone.