As for the Winmain thing, it is an option in the symbol loader under Settings > Debugging > Stop at WinMain, Main, DllMain, etc., and basically makes Softice break at the programs entry point (when loaded through the symbol loader), etc.

As for the MessageboxW. The code I was writing was grabbing info from another NT application and required its use. Many NT apps use unicode and the related API calls.

In any case, there are other breakpoints that were not working as well (ones that are more useful than MessageBox, I only mentioned that one because it was one that I remebered did not work with certainty), that other people had posted, I just can't remember which ones they were.

It just makes it that much harder to find that specific part of the code you are looking for, (particulairly when reversing something), when that one bp you really need is ignored by softice. You end up having to do a lot more deadlisting of the program, rather than debugging. Those of us that currently have this problem, and are just working around it (rather than installing another OS), know what I mean, and any newbies that are just trying to learn how to use Softice, etc, and are following a tutorial or something, and it is not working... Well you can see the problems there.