AR max evo/ pgen

Hi everyone.
I got a ar max evo for crimbo, but im having a problems with pgen, i cant seem to load any of my roms.
Ive downloaded pgen v1.2 and tried that but still no joy.
Ive looked at loads of guides but i didnt get any joy.
Any advice or suggestion would be great.
Im using nero, and this is the method ive been using
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++| Booting PGEN and getting ROM's in place |++
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| PGEN can be loaded from a CDROM, HDD or a Memory card. It can also |
| load roms from any of those three devices. The method for booting PGEN |
| and getting the roms into place varies between each of the devices, |
| and each method is described below: |
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| CDROM |
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| NOTE: In order to boot PGEN or load roms from a CDROM, you will need |
| to know how to boot CDR's on your PS2. I can not provide help in this |
| area, please seek information on this from a PS2 related website or |
| forum such as http://www.ps2newz.net |
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| Prepare a CD compilation using your favourite burning software. For |
| this compilation, you must place the PGEN files (PGEN11.ELF and |
| SYSTEM.CNF) in the root of the compilation. If you will be placing roms|
| on the compilation (which isnt necessary, as you may wish to place the |
| roms on a HDD or memory card instead), then place them in one or |
| several sub-directories in the root of the compilation. You must make |
| sure that the number of files and directories inside the root directory|
| does not exceed 32. For this reason it is recommended that you have a |
| directory called "Roms" in the root of your compilation, and then place|
| all your roms inside this directory. The 32 file/dir limitation only |
| applies for the root directory. Once your compilation has been |
| prepared, burn as a MODE2/XA disc. |
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| Memory Card |
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| PGEN can be placed on a memory card and be loaded via Macrus R Brown's |
| exploit. Without going into much detail, this will allow you to use |
| PGEN on a completely un-modified PS2 without the need for a swap trick |
| or similar. In order to load PGEN via this exploit, you must prepare |
| a special save on your memory card (which will show up in the browser |
| screen as "Your System Configuration"). You can use PGEN as your |
| BOOT.ELF. For more information on setting up this exploit, please see |
| http://www.0xd6.org/ps2-independence.html. PGEN will allow you to load |
| rom files stored anywhere on your memory card. It is recommended that |
| you place your roms in the same directory as the PGEN elf file, as |
| when a memory card is selected from the PGEN romlist it will default |
| to the directory on the memory card where the exploit data is stored |
| (usually BEDATA-SYSTEM or similar). |
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| HDD (Hard Disk Drive) |
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| PGEN can be loaded from a HDD installed in your PS2, and can load roms |
| stored on the HDD. At the time of writing, the only application which |
| supports loading PGEN from the HDD is DMS HDD explorer. The HDD |
| Explorer installation CD comes bundled with PGEN, and if you boot HDD |
| Explorer with the installation CD inserted, you can choose to install |
| PGEN and other Dev.olution compatible applications from the CDROM. |
| HDD Explorer is available to DMS customers. Even if you cannot use HDD |
| Explorer to load PGEN from the HDD, you may still load roms from the |
| HDD. A utility such as the DMS HDD Dump tool may be used to copy roms |
| from a CD onto the HDD. You must first use the DMS HDD Format tool to |
| create a filesystem on the HDD to store the roms. You will then need |
| to create a CD compilation which contains all the roms you wish to |
| copy to the HDD. Burn as MODE2/XA. You can then use the dump tool to |
| copy the contents of your rom cd to your newly created filesystem on |
| the HDD. The DMS dump tool, format tool and HDD Explorer may be |
| downloaded from http://www.dms3.com |
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| Notes about the PGEN rom list: |
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| The PGEN romlist is built the same way for each of the 3 supported |
| devices, according to the layout of the filesystem for each device. |
| This means that you can have sub-directories which span off the root |
| directory, and you can use directories to categorise your rom files. |
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| PGEN will use the filenames of roms when building the romlist - it |
| will not scan rom headers to get the rom name (this would take far too |
| much time). This means that if a rom's filename was "Sonic the Hedgehog|
| 2 (JUE) [!].smd", it will appear as "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (JUE) [!]" |
| in the romlist. We suggest using the GoodGEN utility to rename your |
| roms to use the standard rom naming convention. You can download the |
| GoodGEN utility from the PGEN website. |
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| NOTE: Roms MUST have either a ".bin", ".smd" or ".zip" extension to be |
| recognised by PGEN.

Im stumped?????