Another thought for your steam related issue... would multiple windows user accounts allow you to have multiple offline steam users as well?

it sorta reminds me of the graphics from a different game.

A cookie for whoever can name the game(s) these are from.
Anybody under the age of 20 probably wont know.

This post actually compelled me to register. Descent 1 or 2. I enjoyed 3 a lot :) Im 23 btw.
Iv never really understood the alien ...