Asnpack and Opera?

Hi,
I had been practising unpacking on all packed files I could find on my system. I tried on Opera 8.00 Build 7401. The original packed exe is 7kB in size and packed with AsPack 2.12.I unpacked it like a piece of cake and got an exe of 168kB. Now I wanted to make it smaller. The following sections were there in the exe:
.text .rdata .data .rsrc .aspack .adata .mackt

Now the rsrc and aspack sections were 12000 in size. So I deleted the aspack and adata sections and rebuilt the exe. Now I have a working Executable of .... get this, 6kB. BUT the resources are missing. The PE directory lists the base of resources as 4000 (.rsrc). But the exe has no icon and its resrouces cannot be accessed with any res editor. The exe size is not surprising as it loads the main things from opera.dll. I think there is some problem with the rebuild function. There seems to be some prob with the attachment function in this board.
I get the error:
Warning: mkdir() has been disabled for security reasons in \includes\functions_file.php on line 112
followed by some junk .
Thomas Antony