i'll add to this and say that i'm the guinea pig that finn used to test this on another's computer.... and it worked.

the caveat to this is that microsoft in its infinite something or other, tells you on one of their pages that to get just the runtimes for the .net framework you have to use windows update, but when you use windows update you actually get the entire .net framework thing of 23 megs. that wouldnt be so bad, but, it also changed at least one thing on my xp machine. i now have to actually log in to windows where this was automatic before. and this is one of the things i dislike about microsoft products. you get one thing and it wants to change 6 others. this might seem like a small thing, changing my login, and it is, but it also makes me VERY suspicious of other possible changes.

at any rate, on my xp machine, finn's patch worked flawlessly. i can now cheat to my heart's content without having to reboot the game each time. i also have NOT tested to see if i can still log into multiplayer and play a game, so be aware of that possibility also. and for those that think cheats are, well, cheats; these particular cheats make it very easy to set up various scenarios without having to mod the game or files.

so, thanks finn :)

K.