I didn't know whether or not to put this post in Editing, so I put it here, for the fact that it is a technical problem.

Yesterday morning I found a redone freelancer.exe file on megagames.com that permits me to play the game without use of the cd, as I let my brother borrow it. This is the first time in about 3 months I've played Freelancer, as I've been playing EVE Online in the past months.

I don't know if that file has anything to do with my trouble, but since earlier this morning I tried to get FLMM to reinstall the rebalance 3.01fulla mod into the game and it froze while loading. I've restored, but when I wasn't using rebal3.01 the game would CTD immediately after showing the title screen before the menu!

After a bit of tinkering the game is now stuck in 3.01, even though the mod is off. Since the infocards and everything don't work right without the mod installed, I'm leaving it on.

Also, no other mod will work, not even the older rebalance mods. They all crash to desktop. Privateer and other big mods refuse to install past test run, and the log says I'm missing certain parts of the mission .ini files.

My questions are:

1. How do I correct this?
and
2. Are there any individual game files I can download to replace whatever is found to be corrupting my game?

I should be handing you your lungs.