Thanks cassblonde. You answered a needed question. I am just about to try 3booter and FL for the first time. Thought it was pretty obvious that it would have to go in the root of the lastest XPack or StufPak, but confirmation is always helpfull.

Ah the power of searching and reading. This error happend to me after patching the game to WA 1.7.7. (no HELS). None of the tried and true solutions worked. Now I'm set for a complete uninstall/reinstall unless someone knows of a rollback function that I've never been able to find. EA sucks but for some reason we keep buying thier games.

Pescado answered that this is caused by a patch failure.
After reading other posts I learned that AM is not yet adjusted for the latest WA patch.
I would like to confirm should I fix with a rmv/reinst or just exercise patience for AM to catch up to EA latest "tweeking".