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                                                                    Exhibit 10.2

                                 AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                       TO
                          REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

         THIS AMENDMENT NO. 1 (this "Amendment"),  dated as of July 21, 2000, is
made between OPEN PLAN SYSTEMS,  INC., a Virginia  corporation ("OPS") and GREAT
LAKES CAPITAL,  LLC, a Delaware limited  liability  company ("LLC"),  and amends
that certain  Registration  Rights Agreement dated June 17, 1998 between OPS and
LLC (the "Original Agreement").

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

         WHEREAS,   OPS  and  LLC  entered  into  a  Management  and  Consulting
Agreement,  dated as of June 17, 1998 (the "Consulting Agreement"),  under which
LLC agreed to provide certain management and consulting services; and

         WHEREAS,  in consideration for such management and consulting  services
to be  provided  by LLC under  the  Consulting  Agreement,  OPS  entered  into a
Non-Qualified  Stock Option  Agreement  with LLC, dated as of June 17, 1998 (the
"Stock Option Agreement"),  for the purchase by LLC of up to 600,000 shares (the
"Option  Shares") of the Common  Stock,  without par value,  of OPS (the "Common
Stock"); and

         WHEREAS, in connection with the execution of the Consulting  Agreement,
OPS issued  200,000  shares of Common  Stock to LLC upon payment of the purchase
price therefor as stated in the Consulting Agreement (the "Common Shares"); and

         WHEREAS,  OPS and LLC entered into the  Original  Agreement in order to
provide certain  registration rights to LLC in order to facilitate the resale of
the Option  Shares,  the Common Shares and certain  additional  shares of Common
Stock  that  LLC and its  Affiliates  might  acquire  following  the date of the
Consulting Agreement; and

         WHEREAS,  concurrently  with the  execution of the Original  Agreement,
OPS, LLC and Great Lakes Capital, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("GLC"),  entered
into a  certain  Voting  and  Standstill  Agreement  dated  June 17,  1998  (the
"Standstill  Agreement") in order to establish  certain  conditions of LLC's and
GLC's relationship with OPS, including  limiting,  in general,  the ownership by
LLC and its  affiliates  to no greater than 21.0% of the  "Adjusted  Outstanding
Shares"  of  Common  Stock  of the  Company,  as  such  term is  defined  in the
Standstill Agreement; and

         WHEREAS,  OPS, LLC and GLC have entered into an Amendment  No. 1 to the
Voting  and  Standstill   Agreement   dated  July  21,  2000  (the   "Standstill
Amendment"),  concurrently  with the  execution  of this  Amendment  in order to
permit LLC and its  affiliates  to acquire  Common Stock up to 25.0% of Adjusted
Outstanding Shares; and


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         WHEREAS,  the parties hereto desire to amend the Original  Agreement in
order to provide registration rights for certain additional  acquisitions of OPS
Common  Stock  by LLC and its  affiliates  as now  permitted  by the  Standstill
Agreement (as amended by the Standstill Amendment).

         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements
set forth herein, OPS and LLC hereby agree as follows:

         Section 1.     Definitions. Terms used herein and not defined which are
defined  in the  Original  Agreement  shall  have for the  purposes  hereof  the
respective meanings set forth therein.

         Section 2.     Amendments  to  the  Original  Agreement.  The  Original
Agreement is amended as follows:

         Subsection  (a) of  Article  I is  deleted  in  its  entirety  and  the
following substituted therefor:

                        (a)    "Additional  Shares"  shall mean shares of Common
                  Stock that LLC and its  Affiliates  may acquire  following the
                  date  of the  Consulting  Agreement  on the  open  market,  in
                  privately negotiated  transactions and/or directly from OPS so
                  that LLC and its Affiliates would  beneficially own no greater
                  than  that  number  of  shares  permitted  by  the  Standstill
                  Agreement (as amended by the Standstill Amendment);  provided,
                  that the shares of Common  Stock  that LLC and its  Affiliates
                  may acquire  pursuant to any benefit plan of OPS or any of its
                  Affiliates shall not be deemed to be Additional Shares.

         Section 3.     Temporary  Waiver.  LLC hereby waives all rights granted
in Section 2.2 "Registration Requirements" of the Original Agreement, as amended
by this  Amendment,  for a period  beginning  on the date  hereof  and ending on
November 1, 2000.  With respect to this  Section 3, it is the sole  intention of
the parties to defer the  obligations  of OPS under  Section 2.2 of the Original
Agreement, as amended by this Amendment, until November 1, 2000; accordingly, no
other  time  period  set forth in such  Original  Agreement,  as amended by this
Amendment, shall be, or be deemed to be, otherwise extended or modified.

         Section 4.     Integration; Confirmation. On and after the date hereof,
each  reference  in  the  Original  Agreement  to  "this  Agreement,"  "herein,"
"hereunder,"  or words of similar  import,  shall be deemed to be a reference to
the  Original  Agreement  as  amended  by this  Amendment.  Except as  expressly
modified by this  Amendment,  all other terms and  provisions  of the  Agreement
shall  continue in full force and effect and unchanged and are hereby  confirmed
in all respects.  No novation is intended. If there is any conflict between this
Amendment and the Original Agreement, this Amendment shall control.

         Section 5.     Governing Law. This  Amendment  shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the domestic substantive law of the Commonwealth of
Virginia,  without  giving  effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or
rule that would cause the application of the law of any other jurisdiction.



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         Section 6.     Name, Captions.  The name assigned to this Amendment and
the section captions used herein are for convenience of reference only and shall
not affect the interpretation or construction hereof.

         Section 7.     Counterparts.  This  Amendment  may be  executed  in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all
of which together shall constitute one instrument.  Each counterpart may consist
of a number of copies each signed by less than all, but together  signed by all,
the parties hereto.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the parties hereto,  intending to be legally bound
hereby,  have caused this  Amendment to be executed,  as of the date first above
written, by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized.


                                        OPEN PLAN SYSTEMS, INC.


                                        By:  /s/ Anthony F. Markel
                                           -------------------------------------
                                             Anthony F. Markel
                                             Chairman of the Board


                                        GREAT LAKES CAPITAL, LLC


                                        By:  /s/ W. Sydnor Settle
                                           -------------------------------------
                                             W. Sydnor Settle
                                             Manager







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