Although I've not encountered this problem myself, you might want to try using a save game editor to increase your rank. That might work (at least, it would be better than starting from scratch). You can download a save editor
here. You may need to get and register RICHTX32.OCX to use it (just try the editor; Windows will give you an error if RICHTX32.OCX is not registered). You can just search for RICHTX32.OCX in google, but I found instructions
here. I'm not sure if actually changing the rank will work or not, but there may be a place in the save game file you can edit that will take you to the next storyline segment. Like I said, I've not encountered this before, so that's only an idea. Good luck!
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Edited by - Overkill on 1/3/2006 9:47:38 PM