May I suggest a few things first:

I guess your trying to view it in the exe folder by mp_account_id file or whatever it is.

However, when you install the game, it GIVES you a MP id number (first installation/after an uninstall). Write that down, and keep it next time for further reference. Then when you have to reinstall once more you can enter it there.

BUT - try deleting the game (go to my programs/microsoft games/ and highlight that FL folder and then hit delete). Now insert your CD and let it install as usual, this will NOT generate a new MP id, and if it was just a problem with that install, then this should have fixed it.

Hi JKD Hammer! I remember you clearly from the old Browclops days. I played as [SDWasabe.

Anyways, you can also go into the registry and find it there. Just do a search for Freelancer, and in the 1.0 folder you'll find 3 entries - one of those (I think the longest one) is your MP ID. I hope that is correct, I'm just going off memory because I'm posting from work and don't have my home computer in front of me.

I remember you Wasabe, now I play on excelcia mod and hal 2003 Evolutions servers. I thought I saw you on excelcia one day, if it wasn't you then somebody else with your name.. I go by Vae Victis in both places.

Either way thanks Chips and Wanabe for the help I managed to find the ID and wrote it down w/out having to delete the name, but I do wish I simply wrote it down first and avoided this trouble.