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Wolls:
I originally had the same problems trying to do just this thing with the UFOAI directory in C:\Program Files\ so I moved it to C:\Users\Public\

It works from there.  I'm on Vista and its probably a UAC / Privilege thing but I didn't feel like playing around with settings.

Leader Desslok:
I'm still working on it. The Windows Vista solution doesn't work for me since I'm running XP. I have literally tried copying the team names file to dozens of places around my C drive, in almost every UFO folder I can find, into the Users folders, even into the documents and settings folders. Still no luck.

Wolls:
I still don't know what the problem is.   ???  But you could always just alter the archive itself.  Hopefully this helps.  Is it too late to mention that my technical expertise begins and ends at the power button?  ;D

You have the ufoai..\base\ directories full of various *.pk3 's ?? You have the 7-Zip and Notepad? ( or whatever program you use for compression archives)

Open the ufoai..\base\0ufos.pk3 with 7-Zip and find your way to the team_names.ufo  ( 0ufos.pk3-->\ufos\team_names.ufo )
Which you then open with Notepad and then proceed to copy paste over it with your version.
Save and Exit from Notepad.
7-Zip will then pop-up with an option to update the archive.
Click yes, it saves and that should be it.

In Vista it wouldn't allow me to save it so I moved it but you won't have that problem.  Although I don't know why this would work while the directory hierarchy would not.  ( If you still have a ufoai..\base\ufos\ directory you should need to erase the team_names.ufo from there in order for the game to use the archive one)

Leader Desslok:
    I finally got it sussed. I copied the 0ufo.pk3 file into a backup area. Then I opened it with 7zip as suggested. There was no team_names.ufo file. There WAS however a team_human.ufo file. I opened it with word pad and sure enough found the names. I edited them, added quotations. Saved. Then I deleted the original 0ufo.pk3 file out of the UFO directory (leaving the backup incase of a problem). I then rezipped the ufo files with my edited version and then moved it into the UFO directory. Started the game and presto...the names I wanted are there. Thanks for the guidance.

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