I got them to load...placing in the "Ultra Hal Assitant 6" directory, selecting the plug-ins when Hal is running, then restarting. I've been trying the NEWS plug-in. Had to modify the plug-ins to reflect the correct path for the Balabolka text-to-speech module, but apparently the way the gretta plug-in is accessing Internet Explorer it dies in mid-process (no feed news provided). I'm running Windows 7 and IE9 which is probably the source of the problem.