There's a possibility that I spoke a little too soon. As I said earlier, I thought it wise to run through the Academy to get myself back up to speed, however.... on the final "test", I had to exit the game (unavoidable work needed doing). Five minutes later, restarted the game again (via SH3Commander) and when the Disk Checking panel came up I got the message "Error Code 87" followed by further info on what had failed - DrvReg, it seems. I'm posting this with two hopes, firstly that the re-boot I just did might have cleared the problem, and secondly that someone out there might know what the error means - in case I can't get back into the game in the next few minutes.
I quote (loosely) Blackadder. "My path through life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own satanic herd!"
Nope. I now get past the Disk Checking screen but just as the Grey Wolves title video starts the game drops back to the SH3 Commander message reminding me to rollback. Anybody got any ideas as to what has gone wrong? And whether there's a cure?