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TheMenacer, I have no idea of how the various patches interact with each other, but I patched my install of the game straight to 3.04 and skiped 3.01 completely, then patched to 3.06 after that. Never had any problems. Perhaps you could try that?

If it works that way for you, that would indicate that some sort of conflict between the patches vs the unpatched game or more likely that something that was in the 3.04 patch got accidentally left out of the 3.06 version. Most people here have patched gradually, so if it is that sort of thing, the lack of reports would not be so surprising.

RonD, I'll see about testing that during the weekend to see if I can get consistent results and narrow it down a bit. Unless someone beats me to the punch, of course.