Thanks that worked......gamehost even though the file it was supposed to start was named r1q2.exe it was still starting quake2.exe which was an older version of r1q2 that I had renamed. Sorry for all the trouble I quess it was my bad memory.
Heh, glad you got it sorted in the end. Hopefully that will be the first and last time I end up using an exploit to tell admins to update

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