Excellent! That completely solved the issue. Glad it was a Win 7 compatibility issue on my end and not a weird patch thing. Thanks for the quick response.

I'm having the same issue with this version of the 1.09 patch as I had with the prior one; namely that any scenario I start after the patch has the OOB completely messed up, with incorrect leaders and wrong portraits. I can patch with 1.08 with no issues. I've tried installing the base game (1.01 is...