Thank you all for your helpful information.
It did continue to load, and now works, though I do see some strange flashes of what appears to be small tiled FS9 Home Screens right across my screen when exiting.
er, Ben, that .zip link brings up a page headed fs9.zip with no files on it to unzip.
Not to worry, as the one that I grabbed off the net did the job,thanks!
Oh, the things I get into! My FSX always gives me a "Fatal Error" report, and immediately starts to re-launch FSX when I close it.
My brain is fried right now, of to bed for some light reading.
Enjoy your day, you Northern Hemispherians.
FS9 Embarrassment Overload
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