Display problems with DA 1.6

Ever since upgrading to DA 1.6 I have being having a few problems with various graphical things.
The main problems are so: Oh and I don't want to have to revert to the old DL engine b/c play is so much smoother now.
1) No cultural borcders on main screen. They just aren't there. Still appear on minimap just fine however.
2)Single ships have a strange habit of disappearing when stacked. THey are invisible in both normal view and tactical view and take the whole stack with them. When fleeted this never happens. Leads to amusing scrambles for constructors when a freighter passes over a mining base and it looks like nothings there.
3)Line graphs in both the history and in the UI are blank 3/4 of the time. Cannot determine any patern to when they appear or not.
4)Ships parts (other than basic hull) no longer show up in shipyard after design is saved or on the main map or intel viewer. They are just fine during the design process however.
This may just be a problem of my own comp as before the engine rewrite only about half of the jewlery was visible when applied to the ship.

The first three are new but the fourth is likely just my graphics card being a pain in the ass. Its crap but I can't really afford a new one.
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Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug will be erased and recreated for the new session.

Note: If running on Vista with DA 1.6b2 or later, the debug.err is now located in My Documents\My Games\GC2DarkAvatar.
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Very strange:. My Debug.err thinks the game is 1.5 yet the game thinks it's 1.6. Ill try redownloading the patch. Might be something broken there...



Debug Message: Version v1.5 Dark Avatar last updated on: Mon Jan 15 15:09:22 2007
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Very strange:. My Debug.err thinks the game is 1.5 yet the game thinks it's 1.6. Ill try redownloading the patch. Might be something broken there...


Are you running Vista (if so, see the note above about the debug being moved)?