Thanks for the clarification. I am sorry to hear about your father-in-law you and your family have my deepest condolences and take as much time as you need to sort out your family business.
Thank you also on the clarification of the installing process, you didn't confuse me...at least too much
I'll install to a clean folder and see how folders are set up then I'll go over this again and make sure everything matches to what you said.
On the weapons thing, I guess then all I have to do is match the number values to the weapons to see what numbers mean what weapons and also examine the weapons per class to find out what weapons you've got on the ships, and hopefully I can figure out how to add the Tethys, Artemis and Saggitarius ingame (I senserely doubt just renaming the bmps will get them ingame and with proper weapons). If I can figure out how to do it I'll give it a go to take some of the workload off you.
I also am confident I can find the EA Repair ship. I'll see if I can work out the Repair ship, supply ship and maybe a Minaelayer/sweeper also for you. Though it might be a while and I might not figure it out and have to ask you to get all of these ships ingame once you can get to mod again
Take care.