DBoutwell
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Harry,
I have, for the moment, solved the problem. After I exchanged my current mech exe for a copy of the original, I found that the problem did not occur. So, I basically had to reedit everything that I had done previously, which didn't really take that long. Even with the editing, the problem has not occurred again, so it must have been cause by an isolated editing error. So, I'm back in business. Now back to terrain icon editing. Thanks to everyone for your input! I'm sure that it helped in some way.
Harry, I'd like to switch locations with you for a few weeks, so that I could tour all of the battlefields in Europe that I've always wanted to see. Growing up in Texas, I can remember how distant all of the major Civil War battlefields seemed to be, and actually were, and how magical they were when I visited them for the first time in high school. It would be the same if I were to walk the battlefields of Europe in the future.
Now, KG back to your story. A couple of years ago, my dad and I were touring around the valley east of the Blue Ridge in Northern VA, and we stopped by an old railroad Junction town named Rectortown, or Rector's Crossroads. Rectortown is famous in the area for being the site of one of Colonel John Mosby's headquarters. It was here that, in retaliation for the execution of seven his partisan rangers by George Custer, Mosby ordered the same for an equal number of Federal prisoners. He ordered a lottery to choose among the 27 prisoners. Three were eventually hanged, including one who took the place of a drummer boy who had "won" the lottery. My dad and I were reading the marker that related this story outside of an old farm equipment warehouse. The marker also said that the warehouse was also full of Civil War period grafitti. Out of curiousity, I walked across the street to an old gentleman who was working on a tractor, and asked him if he knew what kind of grafitti was in the building. He said that he was the owner, and that he would let me go inside. SCORE! He said that some of the grafitti was put there by Union prisoners of Mosby, which matches the historical accounts. But we found some other stuff that was not related. One piece could be made out to read (I can't remember the guy's first name, as my dad has all of the documents on this guy) ----Chambers, 1st VA Infantry, Shields Division (some date that I can't remember) 1862. After doing some research, I found that in 1862, there was a Union 1st VA Infantry Regiment, and it became the 1st West VA Regiment when Western Virginia joined the Union, I would suppose, and it was under General Shields. And, the 1st VA did, in fact pass through, and camp at, Rectortown, possibly on more than one occasion, but definitely, according to official records, on May 29, 1862. The regiment rested at Recortown from 2 PM until 5 PM on May 29th after marching from Haymarket, VA toward Front Royal, VA during Jackson's Valley Campaign. Heck that was cool enough just to correlate the signature on the wall of a building with a historical event in that units' official records. But to top it off, my dad went about locating this guy's records and where he was from, as well as where his descendents live! How would you like to get a package in the mail one day from a total stranger, with a photograph of your ancestor's signature off of a wall in a 150 year-old building???
Regards,
David Boutwell
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Happy Birthday David Boutwell - 
seems the latests hacker attacks resetted our forum profiles.
well..."1966" just rocks!
RE: Happy Birthday David Boutwell - 
So the load error occurs AFTER renaming of what files exactly?? The shape files? ..or the map files? Both?
I have a couple of that bad associations too, but usually I donīt care about them, as I normally know what files I work with and what they are. 
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