i didn't drag the Pwnage icon to the desktop (which is where i have the Bootloader files)... did it, hack it
in other words, i didn't read the Dev Team's complete instructions and didn't see, and i quote them:
"PLEASE NOTE: COPY THE APPLICATION TO YOUR APPLICATIONS FOLDER OR DESKTOP BEFORE RUNNING. RUNNING DIRECTLY FROM THE DISK IMAGE WILL CAUSE ERRONEOUS BEHAVIOR (such as missing bootloader files and other oddities)."