diff --git a/comictagger.py b/comictagger.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8f93717
--- /dev/null
+++ b/comictagger.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""
+A python script to tag comic archives
+"""
+
+"""
+Copyright 2012  Anthony Beville
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import signal
+import os
+import traceback
+import platform
+import locale
+import codecs
+
+from comictagger import utils
+from comictagger import cli
+from comictagger.settings import ComicTaggerSettings
+from comictagger.options import Options
+
+try:
+	qt_available = True
+	from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
+	from comictagger.taggerwindow import TaggerWindow
+except ImportError as e:
+	qt_available = False
+#---------------------------------------
+
+def main():
+	# try to make stdout encodings happy for unicode
+	if platform.system() == "Darwin":
+		preferred_encoding = "utf-8"
+	else:
+		preferred_encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+	sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(preferred_encoding)(sys.stdout)
+	sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter(preferred_encoding)(sys.stderr)
+
+	opts = Options()
+	opts.parseCmdLineArgs()
+
+	settings = ComicTaggerSettings()
+	# make sure unrar program is in the path for the UnRAR class
+	utils.addtopath(os.path.dirname(settings.unrar_exe_path))
+	
+	signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
+	
+	if not qt_available and not opts.no_gui:
+		opts.no_gui = True
+		print >> sys.stderr, "QT is not available."
+	
+	if opts.no_gui:
+		cli.cli_mode( opts, settings )
+	else:
+		app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
+		
+		if platform.system() != "Linux":
+			img =  QtGui.QPixmap(ComicTaggerSettings.getGraphic('tags.png'))
+			
+			splash = QtGui.QSplashScreen(img)
+			splash.show()
+			splash.raise_()
+			app.processEvents()
+	
+		try:			
+			tagger_window = TaggerWindow( opts.file_list, settings )
+			tagger_window.show()
+
+			if platform.system() != "Linux":
+				splash.finish( tagger_window )
+
+			sys.exit(app.exec_())
+		except Exception, e:
+			QtGui.QMessageBox.critical(QtGui.QMainWindow(), "Error", "Unhandled exception in app:\n" + traceback.format_exc() )
+			
+			
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	main()
+
+    
+    
+    
diff --git a/comictagger/settings.py b/comictagger/settings.py
index 37693f4..8b36ff5 100644
--- a/comictagger/settings.py
+++ b/comictagger/settings.py
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ class ComicTaggerSettings:
 			return sys._MEIPASS
 		else:
 			#return os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath( sys.argv[0] ) )
-			return os.path.dirname( os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0] ) )
+			#return os.path.dirname( os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0] ) )
+			return os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath( __file__) )
 
 	@staticmethod
 	def getGraphic( filename ):