I've completed Easy and Normal once. This is my second time with the Normal setting.

I've been having trouble that I think can be attributed to my GeForce 4MX 4000 graphics card. I'm thinking if the card "burped" at the exact time the new discoveries were announced, maybe the change wasn't written to the game's profile.

Is that possible? Any other ideas what it could be? Or how to modify the profile - just this once - to make up for what didn't happen? I know that normally equates to cheating, but this is a different, justifiable circumstance, isn't it? I'll get through without the price shifts, but it's taking a lot longer to raise the necessary cash to proceed with all the mutations.

Again, thanks for your help, Lady C.