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Graphics problems here too; did what it said on your site Mike, about copying the raw folder and pasting it into the region folders. I take it you meant the 31.03 raw folder should replace the old 31.02 one in the region folders? The site's a little unclear, saying to replace df_31_** with df_31_**.
I've ended up with some weird allocations:

Starting a new game results in the right graphics, so there must be something I got wrong in the raw transfer, although I'm baffled as to how a simple copy & paste could have gone wrong.
Interestingly, it won't let me change the graphics set for these old saves either. I tried switching to Beefmo's dwarves, but ended up with the same result, even after changing the graphics_mayday.txt in both the base raw folder and the region raw folder.

Comparing the graphics_mayday.txt files from both a new game's raw folder and an old game's reveals no differences.

Okay, my chagrin has shifted from the military system, which I'm now pretty sure I understand, to indestructible forgotten beasts. Just saved a second game and exited in frustration, as a titan made of spessartine refused to die, even with its arms and mandibles chopped of. Much like the vomit monster that was the downfall of my last fortress, when I finally threw the towel in this beast was little more than a head, a body and 2 footless legs, and yet it was STILL managing to kill dwarves. In fact, that's the only time it was able to land a blow, as the dwarves got so tired after a while, the titan was bound to land some hits.
I hadn't had a chance the finish my magma pump from the magma sea, so killing it with fire wasn't an option. Pumping magma 60 z-levels is not trivial.

My mayor broke a leg in a cave in, and spent a few months in hospital. The chief medical officer even placed him in traction (although he didn't move him from his bed to the traction bench; I think it's  functional with no "animation" so to speak of yet).
He subsequently got up of his own accord to feed himself, even though he still has a red, broken leg. He's now going about his business of making mechanisms and managing work orders, so I'm assuming that his leg's in plaster.

I got them to attack the megabeast using the Defend Burrow alert.
Unfortunately, the beast was... well, made of vomit and seemingly indestructible.
My dwarves lopped off all its feet and its stinger, and "broke" every remaining body part, but were unable to finally kill it. It eventually bumped an entire squad of legendaries to death.

Bastard.

Oh yeah, before the stinger got lopped off, it injected a couple of poor dorfs with forgotten beast extract.
Eeeew.

Right, I think I've figured out what's going wrong here. I've save-scummed twice just before a forgotten beast spawns. Before it spawns, my military will happily follow any and all kill orders, but when a forgotten beast appears and I set my squad to attack it, they instead completely ignore the kill order.
I'm going to see if they'll at least follow a move order.

FFS, just when I think I have it all working, my main squad stop responding to kill orders when nothing has changed between now and the last time I issued one. They don't respond to move orders either, just standing there in the barracks doing sweet FA while an Ocean Titan rampages through my fortress.
It would be a good system if it behaved somewhat predictably 

I think you have to set different equipment loadout per alert level; so for your Inactive/Training, you'd equip them with practise weapons and armour, but for your first alert level, you'd give the proper stuff. Then you'd just change the squad's status using "t" on the "s"quad menu.