I can actually see ship wireframes and the jumpnodes fine. The ship LODs are kind of messed up though, so maybe it should be changed so that the lod0 is always displayed in wireframe/outline mode (like it used to be) and the other lods are used only in the full textured mode.
Also, for those of you who are getting errors on startup, I think what might be causing it is the backgrounds. When I tried to turn on the backgrounds, the editor gave the generic "send error report to MS" message and terminated, but that background setting had been saved in the ini file and it kept crashing similarly on every subsequent startup of the program. The problem can be temporarily fixed by manually changing the show stars option to 0 in fred2's ini file (in the windows directory).
I'm still working on the line alignment problems. FRED should be working fully in HTL when I'm done with everything. It's going to take a little time to get all of that working though. I'll have a go at the briefing icon problem first.
Cool, it would be great if you can fix that briefing thing. That's the only really major issue left now.