[llamabeast]

Yeah, I know my posts were a bit vague. The trouble was I was trying to narrow down the problem and failing dramatically. Different map - still broken. Different pretenders - still broken. Suddenly I could only create single player games and no network games at all without getting the same bug. Then they stopped working too! Seriously, it was freaky.

I am going to reinstall and patch from scratch, as suggested. Hopefully then I will at least be able to narrow down the problem. Also it hadn't occurred to me to turn debugging on. I will do that, and that should also help to pinpoint the problem.