--- a/greyhound.php	Fri Aug 15 23:31:37 2008 -0400
+++ b/greyhound.php	Fri Aug 15 23:49:00 2008 -0400
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 // set this to false, it will only display the playlist.
 $allowcontrol = true;
 // The default theme. This should be a name of a directory in ./themes.
-$theme = 'funkymonkey';
+$theme = 'grey';
 // Allow forking when an HTTP request is received. This has advantages
 // and disadvantages. If this experimental option is enabled, it will
 // result in faster responses and load times but more memory usage.
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@
 // create directories
 @mkdir('./compiled');
 
+// what kind of terminal do we have?
+$use_colors = ( @in_array(@$_SERVER['TERM'], array('linux', 'xterm', 'vt100')) ) ? true : false;
+
 // start up...
 
 status('Starting Greyhound Web Control v0.1a3');
@@ -85,6 +88,18 @@
   exit(0);
 }
 
+status('doing PHP capabilities check');
+if ( !function_exists('pcntl_signal') )
+{
+  warning('System does not support POSIX functions. Termination signals will result in unclean shutdown.');
+}
+
+if ( !function_exists('simplexml_load_file') )
+{
+  warning('Can\'t find support for SimpleXML, which is needed to parse the Amarok playlist file.');
+  burnout('SimpleXML required to continue. You may have an outdated version of PHP; most versions of PHP 5 have SimpleXML built-in. Check your distribution\'s documentation to find out how to enable PHP\'s SimpleXML support.');
+}
+
 status('initializing playlist');
 
 // init playlist object
@@ -99,11 +114,6 @@
 try
 {
   status('starting PhpHttpd');
-  status('doing PHP capabilities check');
-  if ( !function_exists('pcntl_signal') )
-  {
-    warning('System does not support POSIX functions. Termination signals will result in unclean shutdown.');
-  }
   $httpd = new WebServer($ip, $port);
   
   // setup handlers
@@ -143,6 +153,10 @@
 }
 catch( Exception $e )
 {
+  if ( strstr(strval($e), "Could not bind") )
+  {
+    burnout("Could not bind to the port $ip:$port. Is Greyhound already running? Sometimes browsers don't close off their connections until Greyhound has been dead for about a minute, so try starting Greyhound again in roughly 60 seconds. If that doesn't work, type \"killall -9 php\" at a terminal and try starting Greyhound again in 60 seconds.");
+  }
   burnout("Exception caught while running webserver:\n$e");
 }