diff -Nur gcombust-0.1.25/src/config_files.c gcombust-0.1.25-modified/src/config_files.c
--- gcombust-0.1.25/src/config_files.c	Thu Sep 23 18:53:23 1999
+++ gcombust-0.1.25-modified/src/config_files.c	Wed Dec 15 10:17:46 1999
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 /* I expect to need to write to several config files, might as well use
  * a whole dir for gcombust */
 
-#define GCOMBUST_CONFIG_DIR ".gcombust"
+#define GCOMBUST_CONFIG_DIR "gcombust"
 #define GCOMBUST_CONFIG_FILE_NAME "gcombustrc"
 
 static void read_env(void) {
@@ -96,23 +96,29 @@
 	}
 }
 
-static char *get_config_dir(void) {
+static char *get_config_dir(int i) {
 	char *config_dir, *config;
 
 	if (NULL == (config_dir = getenv("HOME")))
 		config_dir = ".";
 
 	config = string_append(config_dir, NULL);
-	config = string_append(config, "/");
+	if (i==0)
+		  config = string_append(config, "/.");
+	else {
+		  config = string_append(config, "/etc");
+		  mkdir (config, 0700);
+		  config = string_append(config, "/");
+	}
 	config = string_append(config, GCOMBUST_CONFIG_DIR);
 
 	return config;
 }
 
-static char *get_config_file(void) {
+static char *get_config_file(int i) {
 	char *config;
 
-	config = get_config_dir();
+	config = get_config_dir(i);
 	config = string_append(config, "/");
 	config = string_append(config, GCOMBUST_CONFIG_FILE_NAME);
 
@@ -264,8 +270,10 @@
 	if (NULL == cdda2wav_path)
 		cdda2wav_path = which("cdda2wav");
 
-	config = get_config_file();
-
+	config = get_config_file(1);
+	if (NULL == (fp = fopen(config, "r"))) {
+		config = get_config_file(0);
+	}
 	if (NULL == (fp = fopen(config, "r"))) {
 		alert_user_of_error(_(" Could not open config file.\n"
 					" Please configure gcombust in the File/Preferences menu \n"
@@ -307,11 +315,11 @@
 	char *config;
 	int i;
 
-	config = get_config_dir();
+	config = get_config_dir(1);
 	mkdir(config, S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG);
 	free(config);
 
-	config = get_config_file();
+	config = get_config_file(1);
 	if (NULL == (fp = fopen(config, "w"))) {
 		alert_user_of_error(_(" Could not open config file for writing! \n"));
 		free(config);