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I have to say that this thing works very well for just one person moving between multiple machines.  I've been using DF in Dropbox for a while now to have the same game available on multiple machines.  Works great.

I've never ever ever used a corpse stockpile.  Never saw a need for one.  Bodies go straight into coffins in my forts.  Always worked before.

I use burrows very sparingly.  Neither the corpse haulers nor the dead dwarves were in a burrow except for the "emergency" zone that I use during sieges that encompasses nearly my entire forth, including both the dead bodies and the mausoleum.

I think something was causing burial jobs not to get generated, but I'm not sure what.  It seems to have cleared itself up now.  The dwarves got buried, along with a few other corpses (mostly rabbit sentries) that I hadn't noticed.

Nope, bodies and coffins weren't forbidden (I went in manually and un-forbid them and later also did a d-b-c to mass-claim everything in the area) and the door wasn't locked.  I checked all that.

I gave up waiting, set the two bodies to be dumped, and turned back on various hauling labors for the dwarves.  When the bodies made their way to the garbage pile I un-forbid them in the hopes that they would somehow make their way back to their coffins eventually.  At some point in all of this it broke the spell because I saw a dwarf carrying a body I had totally overlooked into the mausoleum.  I went into the job screen and saw a ton of "Place item in tomb" jobs.  I kept seeing dwarves carrying sentry bunny bodies into the morgue.  I'm hoping they'll get to those two original bodies eventually, but at least for now they're not rotting in the middle of my dwarven freeway.

Aw, carp, the problem's back!

I'm guessing it's either Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or the Norton security suite that my ISP gives me because they were the two major things I installed between now and the last successful run of DF.  *grumble grumble*

Edit (to avoid 3 posts in a row): Yup, it is apparently part of the security suite that my ISP supplies.  I seem to have been able to remove just that part and not the whole antivirus suite.  I blamed this on Windows 7, but apparently it wasn't Windows 7 at all - it was just that when I reinstalled my ISP's security suite I got all of their fancy new stuff with it - stuff that apparently screwed with my keyboard. 

I did a "custom" upgrade because there's no direct upgrade path between Vista x64 and Win7 x32, but I am starting to think that it wasn't as clean a process as I thought.  I think thi weekend I'm going to reformat and do it again from complete scratch.

Anybody know how to do a reformat from the Win7 DVD? I didn't see that as an option when I installed last time (otherwise I would have taken it - I like to completely wipe my machine from time to time to start from a blank slate).

I got no errors when I installed Windows and everything else appears to be working just fine.

I upgraded to the latest DirectX in an attempt to fix the Mass Effect problem, but that didn't make a difference.  I posted on the Bioware forums to ask about the Mass Effect problem, but no responses yet (not surprising - I only posted 30 seconds ago).

In all seriousness, it's not the keyboard.  I tried a different one and it had the same issue.  Plus, I'm typing just fine with it here.

Do I have permission to move my own threads?  Or does a moderator have to do that for me?

I really doubt it's lag.  I hit K, use Shift-arrow keys to get to the pile of junk, then the + key to scroll, and the only thing that has a problem with this series of strokes is the + key.  I tap it once (just once!) and it'll start scrolling down the list as if I was holding the key.  It goes, and goes, and goes.  Sometimes it'll stop after 20 items or so, but I've seen it go forever.  Aside from when it stops, this is 100% reproducible each time I start DF.

I had keyboard timing-related problems with DF on my old laptop and I was able to fix them using the init files, but in that case the issue was that DF would think I had pressed a key two or three times when I was only pressing it once.  This time, it seems to think I'm pressing it a bajillion times.

The problem I'm having in Mass Effect is even weirder.  I had been focusing on DF because it was quicker to reproduce, but after beating my head against the issue for a few hours I went back to Mass Effect and studied the problem more closely.  In Mass Effect, none of the keys seem to respond except the Escape key.  I hit W (the "move forward" key) and nothing happens. 

That's not the weird part.  The weird part is that I went into the options and tried to re-map the "move forward" key.  I hit the W key, and 2 appeared in the mapped key section.  I repeated the test (tried to map the W key again) and 3 appeared in the mapped key section.  Each time I tried to map the W key it would actually map a number 0-9, and after 9 it wrapped back around to 0.  o.O

I left it mapped to one of these numbers and went back into the game.  I hit W a few times, and nothing happened at first, then one of the times my vehicle jerked forward a step.  I hit W a few more times, nothing happened, then I jerked forward.  I counted key presses and noticed that each jerk forward was 9 W presses after the last jerk forward.  So Mass Effect thought my W key was sending a different number 0-9 each time it was pressed.  The same thing happened for a few other keys I tried - Mass Effect thought each of them was a cycling 0-9 key.

I'm totally confused now.  These may be two separate issues, though it's very coincidental that I have two games that are having keyboard problems.  Maybe my keyboard is haunted.