i managed to get through a few missions despite the euqipemnt bug and i found a new one, as soon as ufo's started showing up on my world map, the world clock stoped working and got contastly stuck on 5 sec as long as the ufo was in view, it would only move with repetitve licks on the map. There after i had a very hard time speeding up the world clock after the ufo was gone as well, only a double click using both mouse buttons would up the time frame...it kept on repeating itself everytime a ufo showed up.