[Mobhack]

Windows 7 can do strange things, apparently, with your file structure (to include the 'program files' hierarchy). It can squirrel things away under your user folder, depending on how you have set up permissions or who you are logged in as.

That's a summary of what I have gleaned about it - as I have not bothered to downgrade from XP to windows 7 yet.

Anyway - try the following:
Plan A - make a new folder under the C: drive that is outside the managed folders that windows 7 tries to impose it's weird ideas upon. Call it say c:\games\WinSPMBT\. Now install the game and all the patches to that folder(use the navigation tool in the installers). Install WinSPWW2 to another folder under games, and ditto for any other legacy game that gets messed up by Windows 7/Vista file mangling.

Or - plan B - log in as the administrator account on your Windows 7 PC and install as the super-user. That might bypass the Windows 7 problem with trying to squirrel files under a 'user' folder structure instead of the \program files\etc hierarchy?. You would probably have to change to the admin user to install PBEM games though (or your Windows 7 may squirrel the PBEM files under your user directory once again). (Hint - use the search feature to look for .shp files to see where it has actually put stuff - not many other programs use that extension!).

Plan B would require you to learn how the Windows 7 user management system works. Plan A has been reported as a working solution - i.e. bypass it completely!.

Cheers
Andy