Hi all, returning to this wonderful game after some time and I have a problem with RWM

I've added the Runewords folder from the download to my diabloii directory.
I created a new shortcut
I added
-direct -txt (as well as -windowed -nofixedaspect) to the Target slot
and C:\Games\Diablo II\Runewords
the game starts as the original diablo - without the expansion pack

now if I remove the \Runewords from the path,
DiabloII starts off in the LOD (windowed) configuration - everything is happy.
But I wont have all of the nifty runewords available.

So to sum up my problem -LOD works fine without the Runewords path, but I'm stuck with the orginal once I add it.
Any ideas?

I am sorry that I did not post this in the 108 page RWM help thread, but .... well I read a lot of it, but couldn't find an answer.

thank you,