[Chris]

Originally Posted by Salmoneaus

3. The time/date thing you said - that perked my ears. Where I work there is a pretty insidious virus that goes from OS to USB memory sticks that changes the system time to 2020 upon every restart (thereby screwing with the autoupdate of a lot of programs, including AVG). It disguises itself as msmgner.exe (trying to look like some kind of legit program), but Malwarebits blasts it. I'm our default "tech guy" at work (in the social services, and there is no techie for our 4 computers, so I run all the installs, virus protection, updates, and reinstalls if necessary, because I'm the most computer savvy - whether you believe that or not ;0 ). It is incredibly hard to "stop" this virus as it immediately goes from USB thumb drive when they are opened to OS, and from OS to USB thumb drive. With 20 employees or so, many using USB thumb drives and never all there at the same time, the virus spreads back around pretty quickly. Needless, it hasn't affected my vista machine to my knowledge, but I'll have to take a closer look, if those save files have anything to do with system date....

Anyhow, thanks for your help. I'll post the results of my efforts after I conduct them.

Cheers!

All this has not to do a single bit with Shannara. Just try the hints given above.