Dunno how my previous post didn't stick, but... 
 Finally booted the game up, and after a grand, could-be-mistaken-as-"artsy" intro, I'm giving coffee to one of the worst excuses for cussing I ever done seen. Decided to save the game (which seemed to work) and exit to the menu (which didn't) so I could check out mouse-based contexts in the manual (as I suspected, left-click is to-the-point, right-click is shooting the shit), but had to Ctrl+Alt+Del out of a massive cursor contrail party. 
 Will be going back into the game, though, now that I've skimmed the manual. On that note...
 TJF588: Are you sure you have the whole story ? 
 In the world of Still Life, nothing is exactly what it seems. Everybody has a secret, everyone is trying to uncover what'shidden, and finding the answers just creates more questions. 
 The full story of Still Life continues online, with a Web-based adventure in which you will delve a little bit deeper into the secrets of Still Life, secrets which certain people are trying very hard to keep hidden. 
 The mystery continues online at www.stilllife-game.com 
    Well, that's kinda lame, since the site's down (at least it's 
Internet Archive'd). 
 Side note: Why does clicking the hyperlink button never put the URL tags around my highlighted selection? Is it some fluke from using Opera instead of a more commonly used browser?