installing style files in lyx for conference

[Adrian Peter]

Hi,
I am running LyX on my windows box.  A conference I am preparing a paper for 
provided a .sty file to use for tex preparation.  How can I make lyx see the 
style file?  I tried to create a simple layout file that told lyx to look 
for the style file.  However, when I do a recongfigure lyx cannot see the 
.sty file.  Also when I start lyx and went to help and clicked on the latex 
configuration, it says "not a lyx file".  Are all these things related?  If 
so I would appreciate some advice on how to fix this.  Thank you.

Adrian