I purchased the product last night, read the manual, and tried to run it. So far, no success.

I'm running Windows XP, so the whole "run as administrator" is a non-issue.

The first thing I did was assign the weapons to an aircraft. It was an old FS9 aircraft ported over to FSX, lacking a panel, so I thought this would be a good candidate for the weapons mod. When I brought up the panel, the main panel and the HUD background appeared, but when I selected the HUD itself, the pointer turned into an hourglass and just sat there flashing over and over with no HUD. I exited the sim, reloaded, and this time selected the weapons-enabled FA-18. This time, I was able to get the HUD. When I went back and selected my aircraft and tried to enable the HUD, again, no HUD and a blinking hourglass, as if something is stuck in an endless loop.

Oh well, I can at least enjoy the FA18, right?

Relaunched sim, selected FA-18, brought up the HUD. I pushed the button to fire the guns. The guns fired a couple dozen rounds, and I saw the effects on the screen - but then the sound got stuck and just kept repeating the gunfire, over and over and over again. I couldn't make it stop except to exit the sim.

I really want to like the product, but it seems very, very buggy to me. :(