Bustoff, thanks anyways for responding.  And yes it seems to have worked.

Nm. Figured it out.

<t> An issue I have is the way the game deals with salaries and I've noticed that CPU teams have a problem drafting fairly good players and sometimes resort to drafting $50,000 salary players. I believe that Puresim isn't complete until some sort of Minor League Players/Draft Players salary solution ...

<t> I've had three very interesting fictional associates die now because during the offseason (Before Amateur draft and before Almanac updating) the program (probably infinite loop of some sort) simply wouldn't progress. I let it sit for over an hour each time (dual core 2.8ghz processor, 3.5gigs of ...

<t> The 1.2 patch continues to give me fits and the version I'm using constantly crashes due to explorer errors. Anything I can do to perhaps find the problem or send something to try and get this thing fixed? <br/>
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Whats weird is the non 1.2 version was working fine from 2006 - 2010 but ...

<t> I'd like to make a suggestion on two things. I think that this could improve the game and make it a little more realistic as well.<br/>
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1. Amateur Draft - Players who are selected in the amateur draft can have up to 6 year contracts and they have a cap, around 2 mil, depending on round ...

I tried as you suggested but ultimately I had to re-install the whole program. Luckily it doesn't wipe out your league. I haven't tried using the patch again but I'm probably going to redownload it and then try again and see if that works.

<t> The initial screen (not new/load/quick etc) comes up fine and when I push the Play button on that screen the next one where you can choose to make a new association/load one etc doesn't show up.<br/>
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I pushed ctrl-alt-del and it shows that the puresim program has loaded to 86 megs but no ...