Type II boat questions

[PapaG39]

I'm finely on my 3rd patrol (AGAIN) with the IIA/D boat. I made it all the way to #7 before I lost all saves last time. This is really starting to get to me.

Anyway, The more I play this game the more questions I come up with.

I have searched & researched to find more info on the IIA/S boats. The Museum is very limited.

The "Q" key does not pre-open the torpedo doors on my computer. I don't see where anyone else has questioned that so I got to wondering...can you or can't you open the doors before shooting on the type II? How?

Another thing that I'm having issues with is the Sonar man & the Watch officer calls.
The SO will give the inital call at around 20000m and again medium range at 7500m & he will give you info if you ask him right down to where you really need it below 3000-25000m & then he starts giving info on a ship moving away that is so long gone as to not even be a factor for the last hour.

The nearest ship is the one you are tracking which is closer then 3000m & he won't target that one.
Isn't the info on closest target icon supose to get info on the closest ship? This has happened every time to me. Even when it's not stormy he quits proper calls when asked & gives info on some ship 48km away...at least that is what the ruler tool says anyway...

Do I have a bad install or is this just the way it is?

Another thought...lol.. I have accidently touched the enter key about three times in the heat of battle & shot off my last torpedo causeing shouts of surprise and angery words that most likely had my neighbors within two blocks calling 911 because they were sure someone was being killed...

Is there a-way to stop that key from launching the torpedo? I would like to assign the Depth key to that particular key..is there a-way to do that?

I am having a blast with this type II sub, but just as I get things going I loose everything. It just doesnt show up.. The "saved games" option is grayed out and I don't even know what I may be doing to cause the problem. Those files are gone from the folder... It is empty!