skyhawka4m,
Absolutely nothing, I run a bog standard FSX install on a drive that I hot swap in so I can test additions outside of my 'real' FSX installation, just in case anything goes wrong.
Could it be you have something in yours that boosts the shine?
Look for envmap.bmp in root texture folder, it should be exactly 42.7k.
That's about all I can think of.
:encouragement: