diff --git a/src/server/slave.c b/src/server/slave.c
--- a/src/server/slave.c
+++ b/src/server/slave.c
@@ -76,13 +76,16 @@ for(counter=0; counter<argc; counter++){
 
 /* Option getter: Creates vars to grab stuff from conf, uses the options include to grab this data */
 char *username;
-username = NULL;
+char *datadir;
 cfg_t * my_cfg;
 cfg_opt_t myopts[] = {
 		CFG_SIMPLE_STR("username", &username),
+		CFG_SIMPLE_STR("datadir", &datadir),
 		CFG_END()
 		};
 struct options_common *commonopts;
+
+username = NULL;
 options_init(argc,argv,&my_cfg, myopts, "slave", &commonopts);
 /* End option getter */
 
@@ -125,21 +128,38 @@ char *pathtoJobfile; // Full path to the
 
 
 // If the slave is getting job info...
-	if(gotframe ==1){
-		fprintf(stderr, "Received %d in job %d, preparing to render...",framenum,jobnum);
+	if(gotframe ==1)
+	  {
+	    char *tarcmd;
+	    char *outdir;
+	    char *jobdatapath;
+	    
+	    fprintf(stderr, "Received %d in job %d, preparing to render...",framenum,jobnum);
+	    
+	    /**
+	       Variable Preparation 
+	       @todo find where to free() all of these
+	    */
+	    _distren_asprintf(&jobdatapath, "job%d", jobnum);
+		_distren_asprintf(&urltoTar, "http://protofusion.org/distren/stor/job%d.tar.gz",jobnum); // Prepares URL to download from
+		_distren_asprintf(&pathtoTar, "%s/stor/jobdata/job%d.tar.gz", datadir, jobnum); // Prepares destination to save to
 
-		/* Variable Preparation */
-		_distren_asprintf(&urltoTar, "http://protofusion.org/distren/stor/job%d.tgz",jobnum); // Prepares URL to download from
-		_distren_asprintf(&pathtoTar, DATAPATH "/stor/jobdata/job%d.tgz", jobnum); // Prepares destination to save to
-
-		_distren_asprintf(&pathtoJobfile, DATAPATH "%s/job.blend", jobdatapath ); // Prepares the path to the jobfile
-		 = DATAPATH "/stor/jobdata/output.jpg";
+		_distren_asprintf(&pathtoJobfile, "%s/%s/job.blend", datadir, jobdatapath ); // Prepares the path to the jobfile
+		// = DATAPATH "/stor/jobdata/output.jpg"; /*< ? */
 
 		//  Download the data
 
 		curlget(jobdataurl, pathtoTar); // Downloads the Tar @TODO: add a progressbar
 
-		exec("tar -xvf" jobdatatar, /tmp/distren/job%d',jobnum,jobnum); // @TODO: How will we do this?
+
+		_distren_asprintf(&outdir, "/tmp/distren/job%d", jobnum); /*< @todo free() */
+		mkdir("/tmp/distren");
+		mkdir(outdir);
+
+		_distren_asprintf(&tarcmd, "tar -xvf \"%s\" -C \"%s\"", jobdatatar, outdir);
+		system(tarcmd);
+		free(tarcmd);
+		
 		exec_blender(blendjob, pathtoBlend, outputpath, framenum); // So this should grab data from the struct? I have no idea. @TODO: Ohnobinki, we should clear this up.
 
 		// Consider placing the following in the exec_blender() function