[tetonj]

After swapping the messages.dat file with a 4 kb file from a new league, as suggested, the league loaded just fine. The team record was correct, the stats were correct. Messages were gone, as expected. However, there were two problems.

1) When I tried to back-up the league, it crashed the game. I only tried that once because, well, I want to play.

2) The other problem was that, while all of my team stats for the year were correct, I had a whole new roster (I am playing the career mode, starting the minors and working up). That roster includes 4 of everyone's favorite ghost, Joe Unknown, all SS.

This is not a problem that I really care to fix, unless it's easy. Instead, I'm going to move forward with the new roster, since it's a minor league team in late July, so I'm expecting to lost half my players anyway. But I hope this is not a persistent issue, because I did not have problems with OOTP 2007.