OK folks, the cause of the issue torpedobait found has been identified. We aren't going to do a patched release just yet, because the identified issue might just involve other locations that have not been found before, so a thorough search of the files for similar configs will be done. Needless to say, we discovered that the game handles white space in the text files differently in different sections of the game... "exact" spellings do not function as expected...
However, we do want anybody with other issues to please get with us ASAP. I am not certain if we are going to attempt fixing the Porpoise boat's issue with the cabling that Kal_Maximus_U669 found or not, because that poor boat has 3 additional uv maps associated with it, which really complicates edits on it. We'll see if vichers03 might be brave enough to attempt to at least do the cabling, but we do really want to remove the flagpole from the cigarette deck railing on the 3rd conn also... two files then, each with those extra uv maps... yeesh! Anyway, let us know of any issues you may have found please.