Kitchen help

[rjmjr69]

Ok so I'm trying to cook my first "public" rom I have some great files to start out with "Thanks to you know who you are" But I'm having a brain fart this is not my first rom I've cooked quite a few practice roms but for some reason I can not figure out how to get my own sys files and oem files into the kitchen each time I try replacing them I get all types of weird errors? Whats the secret here? I've been READING READING READING so much so my eyes are red and raw so please dont ask me to do more reading. I know I'm making some silly little mistake overlooking something small

HELP please!

I'm trying to use Caulkins 1.3.1 kitchen or even 1.4 which has no oems etc

Or should I be using another kitchen? I've tried just basic Raphael but again unless I rip the rom I can't use it with the files I have