What could be causing this insane behavior?

[teukros]

Everything seems to be fine, full installation of course, the model importer seems to be working fine and reports successful operations, the new models + textures are showing up in RebEd... and yesterday I tested my new MC-40a model in Tactical so I KNOW that it works.

 

But the tactical.dll's timestamp hasn't been updated in more than six hours, despite my attempting to import more than a half dozen models in that time (both using the model importer and manually); I have used the Search function to confirm that there are no other tactical.dll files on the hard drive (and I have run scandisk and rebooted just in case), AND when I tried to set up battles from the Imperial side, the VSD, the ISD and the Golan III (which replaced the Imperial Dreadnought) had all reverted to their ugly original selves!

And yet they still show up fine in RebEd...

 

I'm perplexed....

 

 

Edit: Just to make things more fun, the MC-40a, which was fine yesterday, has reverted to what used to be in that slot, the bulk transport.

 

And when I try to use the model importer to import a VSD, it STILL reports success, Tactical.DLL STILL refuses to be updated (and it's not read only, that was one of the first things I checked for), and when I start a new game the VSD is STILL the same.

 

EDIT: Tried deleting the tactical.dll and starting a game, went into tactical mode, no error... I guess this means that the game somehow got reset to use the tactical.dll on the CD - how do I change that - and why does the model importer think that its operations are successful when it is doing nothing?

And where the blazes is RebEd getting its models and textures from????