Ok now I'm confused. If I understood Gazz correctly, you use the 'select mod' feature at your own risk, but it was safer to add it as a false patch.Or, you could just extract the cat/dat into the main folder, letting it create the subdirectories needed. Personally I prefer this instead of a dozen cat/dat's as false patches or mods. But that's me.
So, a few questions to hopefully clear me up!
1) What's the safest and most compatible way to use this fix?
2) If it's added as a false patch, will the 1.3 patch overwrite it? Do I have to do anything special after 1.3 is downloaded? (I'm one of those happy Steam users)
3) Do I have the following correct?: All OOS ships that this fix affects will be fixed the next time I encounter them? Any affected In Sector ships will need to leave sector and come back to be fixed?
Edit: I forgot to [/sarcasm] from question 2