well, I'm at college now, so no ICQ.
yosh, in the order of posts:
inquisitor:
I'd glady help for that, but seeing I'm not a programmer... Well, my only advice would be first to remove the annoying limits ( gotta make a list of those limits... mmh, size of the various tbls, number of entries in those tbls, number of ships in fred, number of glows on ships, etc etc ).
Once this is done, fixing what is screwed up by this ( having to many ships breaks mplayer I think ).
After that, enabling what is already ingame but isn't available to player ( various commands, the glide lightning, enabling remapping of certain keys - sliding-, dunn, mmh, all that kind of stuff)
And so on. by order of priority I think.
Well, voila.