All right, I have now firmly established that my M3real is a clone. That's not too bad. Ive heard that they don't do too bad after you get them running. That being said that hard part apparently is getting them running. It wouldn't be so hard if the site printed on the box was still on the web. At this point i feel like stabbing myself in the eye, but i don't think that would help matters any. So any ideas on how to get this hunk-0-junk to work?
ok so I downloaded a TTDS with clone killer disabled, and renamed the ttmenu.dat file to M3.dat and now its working! thank you everyone for your help