[Grumbling Grognard]

Thanks for trying, but the disc works fine in another DVD drive.

The disc worked fine until I updated my DVD firmware to the MOST CURRENT VERSION from Sony.

Now it will not read the large wmv files (that I suspect are used as checksums in the code somewhere).

On the good news...all my browsing piqued my interest and I installed DOSBOX and DFEND and we are now enjoying Silent Hunter Commanders Edition (the original).

I think I will wait at least a month or three after SH4 comes out and read a few forums before I drop another $50 on a game that is copy protected so damned well a ligit, 40-something long time gamer can not play the game.

Still very unhappy with the state of copy protection in that it only seems to screw around the folks like me that actually pay $ for their games EVERYFREAKINGTIME.

Thanks again for your concern,
GG