PROBLEM SOLVED! Had nothing to do with the game name, as I explained in an earlier post. I was playing around with the settings and I noticed I neglected to change the default executable from whatever is in there -VP 9.0 I think, to the latest version (for VP 9 tables anyway), VP 9.92. That did the trick. So even though the tables loaded without Pinball X just fine, by forcing Pinball X to load those tables through the older executable, they just didn't get along! Makes sense because if you open the old executable file by itself and then try to load a newer table, it usually won't work, either. I guess I just wasn't looking at the whole picture before. So now I'm just left with this weird feeling of feeling very smart and very stupid at the same time... with the scale tipping more toward the stupid side!