you could uninstall blender and download blender as zip and just extract that zip. that's what i always do. i never have installed blender.

or you could ask jetpackmonkey. she had the same problem if i understood this correctly and she was able to choose the location of the .blender directory with the installer or so.

do you use xp or vista? maybe you need to be administrator with vista?

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I have wasted enough thread space
i have no problem with that! that's what forums are for. smile

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i came across this:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1136878#post1136878
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