Ah. I cleared the value, not the key. Anyway, I made the problem go away
laterally: I just stopped using the 3.6gamma VM and started using the
3.5.2beta5 VM instead.

>Phil Hudson <phil.hudson at iname.com> wrote:
>> Help! I don't understand any of this. How do I get the Package Loader
>> working again? I looked at the SMLoaderDownloadDirectoryName - it had an
>> entirely reasonable value (my Squeak app directory), but I deleted it and
>> that didn't fix the problem.
>
>Well, the most obvious solution is to just set the download directory to
>something more suitable.
>Open Package Loader, click right mouse button in package list (to get
>the menu), choose "set download directory" etc. :-)
>
>Another way is to clear the Preference, I could actually not find a
>method for doing this (funny), but if you browse class Preferences,
>select the class var "Parameters" in the class definition, press alt-i
>(to inspect it) and then remove the key #SMLoaderDownloadDirectoryName.
>
>This will make the Package Loader use "FileDirectory default" as the
>download directory.
>
>regards, Göran
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