"Do you use UCAC3?"

I'm not quite sure what you are saying here.

Is UCAC3 display done somehow different from normal tdf display in the latest upgrade? I didn't test ucac3 download when I tested the latest upgrade t'other day.

For a very long time now Guide has intelligently placed labels. In very busy circumstanaces a label or two can get missed out, but usually there's room to arrange them around things, and if the labels were bing overwritten then he'd see the ucac3 labels instead, but I must admit to being confused now, because one second it's the namelist that can't be read, then next second it's the charts.

In fact, the intelligent label positioning can be put to good use to give multiple labels at times. At one point is was partway sensible to label stars for some photometric resource wanting peeps so that the actual magnitude was printed next to the star, but it also would be useful to know the star's colour, B-V in that instance. You can do that with a minor bit of fiddling, and you can in fact plot as many labels as you can get away with (it's just that right click will see that object multiple times should it be used).

I personally am of the opinion that he's done something sideways with his settings, because no one else seems to have the problem.

Incidentally, people who are getting it to work aren't telling Bill what they're OS is. In the end OS might be a red herring, but the update date isn't the only variable in versions of Guide, the OS and service pack being used for that OS (if any) are variables too.

Cheers

John