Tellos Athenaios,
Thank you for stepping in. I hope you are wearing waders

Forgive me if you have tried this before, but you could manually *copy* over the sp game edu backup files to their appropriate locations using Bovi's instructions.
Well I did as both you and Bovi suggested... I really didn't expect anything different to happen, after all the files that were already in the designated locations were exactly the same as the ones in the back up (at least the txt file was, I could actually read that). But I figured what the hey, maybe something mysterious would happen. But when I clicked on my BI to EB shortcut and anxiously waited for the game music to start to play and the start -up screen to appear all I got was the same old story.:

"Single Player," "Start New Game," "play EB Main Campaign"
"Please select an Item from the list," but there is no list provided just an arrow that takes me back to the previous menu.

I've gotten along fine without Java up to now, but for the sake of this Mod I went ahead and installed it and reinstalled it again.
I had Java check itself and it said it was installed properly, updated and running as it should.

However when I do the "validateInstall.bat" check I still get the same error code as listed above (previous post).

I've never had the need for a "TrivialScript" program before, but once again, for the sake of this mod I loaded it in all the installs.
I just now clicked on the "EBTrivialScript.exe" and received the following error message in the log.txt:

00:18:11: XMLScriptParser: Couldn't load file: script.xml
00:18:11: Error Parsing file: script.xml
00:18:11: Row: 0 Description: Failed to open file

So obviously this isn't working as it should, but All I can do is try a fresh RTW-BI v1.6 copy and let the damn install program do it's stuff..... again....

I looked at the "EBTrivialScript" manual, hoping it might tell me something, but all I want to do is play this mod for a few hours, I don't want to have to learn how to program the "EBTrivialScript" tool that I imagine is there to save time, not gobble it up.

Of the "extras" that I let the install put on board I like the "Recruitment viewer" (and at least it works for me). and of course the "Building Tree manuals" are useful, but can I install and play this game without saying yes to the damn "EBTrivialScript" management tool?

I just have a sneaky feeling that it is this piece of software that is screwing up this mod experience for me... Assuming that is that the downloads of V1.1 & 1.2 were intact.

I've got just about enough patience for one more go at this tonight and then I'm done for awhile.

This new Mod upgrade whetted my appetite like a nice juicy steak, but if I can't eat the damn thing then all it is doing is giving me aheadache and making my stomach growel.

I will try one more load tonight and this time say "NO" to "EBTrivialScript."
If it still won't let me see the Campaign menu, well, I' no better off than I am now without trying.
I'll post back and let anybody who might be interrested in knowing the results of my last experiment of the evening.....