----------------- Just to let you know, I had loaded Phratch on Pharo 3.0 few days back and it worked fine at the basic levels. It did throw the an error dialog but continued to load and present the full screen of scratch. I will test it further as it progresses..
( as someone else said, no harm moving to a attractive name for such a beauty of a work ..) -------------------- and I am the idiot that did not think to press the proceed button :D No idea why it did not cross my mind to click "proceed". Oh well ! looks like it works as you said.