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Glad to help! And I learned something: those codes do not mean a model, but rather a .png -a picture. Thanks!

Hello Ben.: Huh? I know I am only a "squatter", but what are you trying to say???? Are you saying that lil' 'ol me should attempt to fix a master's work? Or...?

To Nofunk: Great work, BTW! I recently downloaded your BSP Kingsley Arms Apartments. I ran it through the SC4 Lot Information Generator and it came back with an error: WARNING : 0x856DDBAC-0xEBDD10A4-0xF7124FFA in SimCity 4\Plugins\Residential\Apart-Condo\R$$$5_2x3_KingsleyArms.dat is defined twice I think "856DDBAC" means a model, but I could be wrong. Point is, I think you may have a duplicate of something in the .dat This is not negative criticism, just wanted to point out a possible error.

although I guess for some of the "I want to control what my neighbour does" crowd on the Christian right it may seem it. Gays don't want special rights and neither do most minorities. They just don't want to be stomped on all the time. quote> That is rich- let us examine some facts now, shall we? "...control what my neighbor does..." that would be: who controls my money by raising my taxes? -Liberals. Who controls which college I attend by quotas? -Liberals. Who controls what job I have through affirmative action and minority set-asides? -Liberals. Who controls where I may buy a house by "smart-growth" (which are neither smart or allow growth) initiatives? -Liberals. Who controls what kind of toilets I may purchase to put into the house I wish to buy -why liberals of course with the revolutionary .2 milliliter eco-toilet ordinance -otherwise known as the "double flush" (or for those of us who appreciate cheese, the "triple flush"... but I digress...) As a side note, one area I give the Canadians props for are that fact they have not outlawed real toilets like they have here in the U.S. Anyway, to get this back on topic since I veered way off, I find it ironic that she (a Mormon which in Liberals worldview are the hand-maidens of Satan- see the treatment Romney, Cox* et al receive(d) in the "main-stream" press) whereas the little darlings that accused her of having ten mothers receive nary a slap on the wrist. Just proves yet again that if you do something wrong against the left, there will be hell to pay, but if you say something that is within their worldview, i.e. Mormons-polygamy, that is okay. And another thing with your second phrase quoted up there: substitute "Gays" and "minorities" with "Evangelicals" and you would also have a proper statement. I am not an evangelist, but I am Catholic and even I am sick and tired of the Lefts' treatments of Evangelicals. Only the left would consider desecration of a religious symbols art- elephant dung on the Virgin Mary is considered art in NYC. *Lt. gubernatorial candidate this past election in Maryland

I am 99.44% sure this is a driver issue- you do not have the proper driver installed. I had this exact same issue and it was only through trial and error of un-installing and then re-installing drivers until I found the proper one for my video card to eliminate this "red" issue. In my case, it was an older driver, not the latest, that solved the issue.

I lived in Malahide and worked in Dublin during the summer of 2000. Ireland is great country- from the people, history and culture –everything was absolutely wonderful. My wife and I brought back a "souvenir", Ethan, my oldest son, who is now five years old –if you get my drift (no, this is like Angelina Jolie or Madonna –he is all ours!) We also really enjoyed Waterford, where they make all the crystal- really cool factory tour that I highly recommend. We also had a blast in some B& B’s in the Southwestern part of Ireland –county Claire I think it was near Ennis –excellent food beautiful scenery- just a wonderful place. I can remember having the best lamb stew of my life at some small town somewhere along the Ring of Kerry. I hope someday to go back and show Ethan where he was, uh, “created” but also just to enjoy Ireland again. Who knew that Ireland was so romantic? While we, of course, hung out many a hour at Temple Bar, we will always have a special place in our hearts for “Smith’s” in Malahide –which was our adopted watering hole/dinner place/pub/evening gathering spot, etc. They would have live music every night of the week. BTW- great picture of Malahide castle. We went on the tour and thought it was really neat!

DC Area Batters, A Few Requests: For those of you that live in the DC area, here are some requests: 1) The Capital One office building in the Tyson's Corner area that you can see from the beltway - a CO$$ growable would be excellent. Now Sims can also be annoyed by all those "What's in your wallet?" commercials... 2) The office building at I-270 and Tower Oaks Blvd right around exit 5 - you can see it from 270 and anybody who has driven by it will know what I am talking about given its unique design- again a CO$$ growable would be excellent. 3) The Dulles/Loudon County Technology Center- it is the funny looking building off the Toll Road just before Dulles airport on the right. This could be a ploppable that attracts I-HT to your city or maybe a reward... And finally, 4) the new HGS building on Shady Grove Road just south of Darnestown Road - a beautiful curvy green-glass building that on a bright, partly cloudy day is just amazing looking. Everybody should a genetics research facility in their backyard...! This could replace the in-game Advance Research Facility. If anybody is ambitious enough to do these, I would be most appreciative, thanks a million!

People think I am nuts for doing this now, but it is a case of if I do not get my Masters now, I'll never do it kind-of-thing. And yes, I enjoy Simptroplois a lot!

Beebs: Yes, I really like NWN, but the problem is that it takes a lot of time to develop original content, even with using the wizards -even with my engineering and programming background. It is one of those things that you have to stay consistently at it- you cannot code for a few days, put it down for a month or two and then go back to it. And given my family situation, I just do not have gobs of time to devote to NWN at the moment. But I do enjoy it (when I get the chance)!

RJ: Thanks, and my oldest- my five year old son, is starting to show some interest. He does not understand the concept of funding yet, but he does like to suggest where to put roads, train tracks, buildings, farms, bridges, etc. In fact he does have the whole 'zoning' concept down pretty good. Farms, bridges and trains are his favorites.