i did that ^^

nothing happened? we'll nothing i can see

when i hover over my item, the little popup label it shows exactly what i want it to show.

hmmm.
maybe im not doing something right?

i copied it exactly as you stated above. :(

hmm ill take a look, maybe i did some other mods first.. i think i got the code from a minicart mod someone else posted

well the only other cart mod i remember doing was this one for the minicart:
http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=19065

so you could try that and see if it changes anything. Im not really a coder i just find other peoples stuff and tweak it until it works the way i want so someone more familiar with smarty could help better.