Problems with the patch, plz help

I'm sure tons of you have had these exact same problems.. Any help would really be appreciated.
OK I installed the patch, under the impression that if I backed up my T2 24834 exe file, I could still play on the old servers when I wanted. However, that is not working. I backed it up, made a shortcut to it, ran with -online and -login, and I still can only see the 25026 servers. Not that that is so horrible, there's a ton of them, but still.
Next problem is that my damn reticles are gone, I've heard about this before and that there's a fix to it somewhere, could someone link me to it?
Final problem is that I then installed the latest version of PJ's superstats, and when I look at my stats, they're all friggin blank. I restored the latest backup (which I made today before installing the patch) and still my stats don't show up for me to view.

This is really frustrating, why can't anything go smoothly?
Now I bet I'm gonna have to uninstall T2, reinstall, patch up to 24834, install the old versions of PJ's scripts around 6.00 that worked just fine for me till now, and go on playing on the old servers like I was. What a royal pain in the ass.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me..

OK I figured out why it wasn't working for me, maybe this will help some of you.

Lets say you back up your original T2.exe file, and name it something with a space in it, like I did, such as "Tribes2 24834.exe" ok then you make a shortcut to it. Windows puts quotes around the shortcut, so it looks like this:

"Cblah blah\Tribes2 24834.exe"

OK anyway, then you put in your -online and maybe -login. But then it gets mad and tells you this doesn't exist, which it doesn't, so you take away the quotes to make it work, right? so your shortcut looks like this now:

Cblah blah\Tribes2 24834.exe -online -login NAME PASS

with no quotes. The problem, I realized, is that the 24834.exe part is actually not interpreted as part of the filename, but rather must be being supplied to the NEW Tribes2.exe file, as an argument. Then you are starting the new T2 file, thats all. Anyway that might be hard to understand, I'm not clear in explaining it, but the point is, DON'T HAVE ANY SPACES IN THE FILE NAME.

Then it should work. I think. well it does for me.


PS. I still need help with the other 2 problems, if anyone can figure something out for me. Thanks!
Post edited by FatBastrd at 10/20/2002 5:35:58 PM

I know what happenned.

You shoulda had it be "Cbla bla\Tribes2 24xxx.exe" -online

do the -online outside the quotes. Called a command line.

as far as the link, can't be of much help. I'm not even sure myself how I got my reticles fixed

You can try the retfix from here http://debig3.tribes2.org/