Here's the deal:

My HUD is very small. In my attempt to resize it (as detailed in another topic), I modified the csweapons.xml file for one aircraft (F-101B). It was a colossal failure; not only did the HUD not resize, but my attempts to modify the panel.cfg resulted in the HUD no longer appearing.

When I attempted to load the CS_FA18, I noticed that it no longer showed any rounds. The gun did not fire, nor did the rockets, which was working previously. I did not modify anything for the CS_FA18 - neither its panel nor its csweapons.xml. In fact, since the loader isn't working properly for me, I use the CS_FA18 as the master copy of the panel and copy it to other aircraft. So I was perplexed as to why the weapons would no longer work for that aircraft.

I decided to uninstall Weapons for FSX and re-install it. When I did that, I noticed that once again, the CS FA-18 would fire properly with both guns and rockets.

However, the F-101B did not. I attempted to remove the "armed" portion of the aircraft via the Loader. When I pressed remove, nothing happened and it did not appear to do anything. However, visiting the aircraft's directory, I saw that it removed the panel.csweapon and the csweapon.xml. It also edited the aircraft.cfg to remove references to "armed" in the a/c description. However, when I went back to install it via the Loader program, Install wasn't an option - it only showed "Remove" as an option. And pressing Remove did nothing.

No big deal, I'll just manually move the files over. So I copied the csweapon.xml and the panel into the F-101B directory from the CS FA-18. When I select the aircraft, the main panel and the HUD show up, but when I select the guns, it shows 0000 rounds. I load up the FA-18 and it shows 0200 rounds. I return back to the F-101B and it shows 0000 rounds.

I modified the csweapon.xml to change the number of rounds from 200 to 400, but it shows up as 0000.

Is there somewhere else I need to change this? Why can't I get the weapons to work properly in the aircraft?