And heres another thing, Play the bloody game the way it was manufactured, and Dan either has a helluva lot of patience or he was stoned while replying to your codswollop, what utter pish u talk, I have never heard so much in my life, you are either doing something wrong, or your game is shafted now carefully follow the instructions that follow
START
HDD
PROGRAM FILES
SPORTS INTERACTIVE
FOOTBALL MANAGER
DB
NOW RIGHT CLICK ON CLIENT_DB AND UN CHECK READ ONLY
CLICK APPLY
CLICK OK
EXIT ALL FILES AND LOAD EDITOR
DO YOUR SHI-T AND SAVE EDITOR
if it aint working still, uninstall your game and reinstall it.
And please learn from this as not everyone is as patient (or stoned) as Dan.
Happy Editing one way or another.