Oh, believe me, I've noticed.
I actually never finished the game the first time through. I don't remember how far I made it, but I know I never finished. I think I finally hit a level where I just couldn't get past it and then just gave up. I still have my retail copy somewhere at my parents' house two states over, but I just like the convenience of steam where I don't have to move around and maintain a hundred discs whenever I move.
Oh well, thanks anyway. I'll keep messing around with the xmls, maybe try extracting the xpatch.bundle to see if they have new mission scripts in there. Will post if I find anything and will keep checking back in case anyone has any pearls of wisdom for me.
How can they have released a game to steam without even checking to see if it has basic functionality, like, say, the effing cross-com? I know no companies support mods, so I guess I can't really blame them for this, but not having a few commands work (and I haven't yet reached Ready for Bear, but it almost sounds like the glitch there is fatal) is just plain ridiculous. For shame, EA, for shame.
Cheers,
barriboy