Well I don't have Ace's Super Turms installed.
I'm maintaining a rather stripped down mod list, or at least I'm trying to. I remember in my previous periods of SH3 play that I would spend more time trying to get everything to work together rather than actually playing the damned game.
Nevertheless... its hard to resist. Might try the super turms out and see what it does for me. Is it simply that nobody doesn't use super turms with this other mod and therefore nobody ever noticed this bug?
Anyway, I owe Valentino for putting the "conning_stuff.tga" into my head so that I could notice it when I was digging through the dat file.