diff --git a/browser.js b/browser.js
index f222dd1..1835c2c 100755
--- a/browser.js
+++ b/browser.js
@@ -25,18 +25,27 @@ var pouchdbstore = require('./pwiki/store/pouchdb')
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 var store = 
-module.store = 
-	{ __proto__: basestore.BaseStore }
-		.nest({ __proto__: basestore.MetaStore })
+module.store = { 
+	// XXX base localstorage...
+	__proto__: localstoragestore.localStorageStore,
+	__prefix__: '--pwiki-root:',
+	data: localStorage,
+	/*/
+	__proto__: basestore.MetaStore,
+	//*/
+	
+	next: { __proto__: basestore.BaseStore },
+}
 
 module.setup = 
 Promise.all([
 	// static stores...
 	//
-	store.update('Settings', 
-		Object.create(basestore.BaseStore).load(page.Settings)),
+	//store.next.update('System', 
 	store.update('System', 
 		Object.create(basestore.BaseStore).load(page.System)),
+	store.update('Settings', 
+		Object.create(basestore.BaseStore).load(page.Settings)),
 	store.update('Test', 
 		Object.create(basestore.BaseStore).load(page.Test)),
 
diff --git a/pwiki/page.js b/pwiki/page.js
index f2a1e62..9dcb0ba 100755
--- a/pwiki/page.js
+++ b/pwiki/page.js
@@ -1643,6 +1643,10 @@ module.System = {
 			<hr>
 			<pre wikiwords="no"><quote filter="quote-tags" src=".."/></pre> ` },
 
+	// XXX need to also be able to list things about each store...
+	stores: function(){
+		return Object.keys(this.store.substores ?? {}) },
+
 	// page parts...
 	//
 	'line-separator': { text: '<br>' },
@@ -1651,6 +1655,7 @@ module.System = {
 	// base system pages...
 	//
 	// NOTE: these are last resort pages, preferably overloaded in /Templates.
+	//
 	RecursionError: {
 		text: 'RECURSION ERROR: @quote(../path)' },
 	NotFoundError: { 
diff --git a/pwiki/store/base.js b/pwiki/store/base.js
index cd88af5..cafa5de 100755
--- a/pwiki/store/base.js
+++ b/pwiki/store/base.js
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ module.BaseStore = {
 			JSON.stringify(res, options.replacer, options.space)
 			: res },
 
-	// XXX NEXT EXPERIMENTAL...
+	/*/ XXX NEXT EXPERIMENTAL...
 	nest: function(base){
 		return {
 			__proto__: base 
@@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ module.BaseStore = {
 			next: this,
 			data: {}
 		} },
+	//*/
 }
 
 
diff --git a/pwiki/store/file.js b/pwiki/store/file.js
index fc182f3..528f1c6 100755
--- a/pwiki/store/file.js
+++ b/pwiki/store/file.js
@@ -520,7 +520,8 @@ module.backup = {
 // XXX add monitor API + cache + live mode (auto on when lock detected)...
 var FileStoreRO =
 module.FileStoreRO = {
-	__proto__: base.BaseStore,
+	//__proto__: base.BaseStore,
+	__proto__: base.MetaStore,
 
 	// XXX
 	__path__: 'data/fs',
diff --git a/pwiki/store/localstorage.js b/pwiki/store/localstorage.js
index 22de735..c974bd0 100755
--- a/pwiki/store/localstorage.js
+++ b/pwiki/store/localstorage.js
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ var base = require('./base')
 // XXX EXPERIMENTAL, needs testing in browser...
 var localStorageStore =
 module.localStorageStore = {
-	__proto__: base.BaseStore,
+	//__proto__: base.BaseStore,
+	__proto__: base.MetaStore,
 	__prefix__: '--pwiki:',
 
 	// XXX add caching of unserialized data???
diff --git a/pwiki/store/pouchdb.js b/pwiki/store/pouchdb.js
index 9bbbf19..c54a17a 100755
--- a/pwiki/store/pouchdb.js
+++ b/pwiki/store/pouchdb.js
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ var PouchDB = require('pouchdb')
 
 var PouchDBStore =
 module.PouchDBStore = {
-	__proto__: base.BaseStore,
+	//__proto__: base.BaseStore,
+	__proto__: base.MetaStore,
 
 	// XXX should this be __path__???
 	// 		...this sets the path where the store is created...
diff --git a/pwiki2.js b/pwiki2.js
index 9a619e3..91ffcaf 100755
--- a/pwiki2.js
+++ b/pwiki2.js
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 /**********************************************************************
 * 
 *
+* XXX BUG: for some reason pwiki.get('/TestPage').raw does nothing when 
+* 		the root store is not BaseStore...
+* 		...seems to be a problem explicitly with /TestPage, could this 
+* 		be a name clash with /Test???
+* XXX BUG service pages (*Error) now print "[ native code ]" instead of 
+* 		the path and replacing @quote(..) with @source(..) breaks things...  
+* 		...this seems to happen only if the root store is not 
+* 		MetaStore/BaseStore...
 * XXX page search: make things invariant via .names
 * 			- if a page is in a system path and there are no alternatives 
 * 				just return it and do not search.