Ack! Modder help needed for TechAreas

[Shadow99]

I was finally able to get around to adding my new tech areas to techareas.txt & after hours of creating, organizing, & fixing typos I tried to start up SE4. SE4 responded with "error cannot load techareas.txt"! Has anyone else tried adding techareas to SE4 before & did it work for you?

I should note I'd run into all sorts of hassles trying to edit this file as notepad didn't want to alter the file (though wordpad had no trouble except to ask me if I really wanted to make it a text file)...

I had finished 90% of my mod (this was basically the Last step before final beta testing) adding 8 new tech areas & allowing the research of items already added earlier (though not usable), so this is kinda a major set back if SE4 won't accept new tech areas...