well i muckjed around a bit with the placement of files and i carefully looked at the locaton of where it says client.dll should be and it shouldnt just be in the ESF folder but in the C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\*email*\half-life\esf\cl_dlls folder after i overwrited the one in there (the one oin there was only 0.98meg while the other one of 1.00meg yea after i did that it worked fine but now im getting something about meleesounds and im a COMPLETE and UTTER noob.... lol i cant even kill crappy bots ITS BLOODY CONFUSING I TELLS YA!!