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First I would like to thank you for adding me to this forum.

My first question I think I have answered by trial and error. However I am sure I will have more questions and / or comments in the future.

I created a scenery file using Flight1 Instant Scenery version 2. And it seems that bgl files do not like when you name them (for example) myfile.mycity.bgl They do not seem to like having multiple periods in the naming structure. Maybe it is just because I am now running Windows XP. Or I guess the why does not really matter. Fact is the file that I named like that really did not work in FS9.

When I did a redo of the scenery and did not use multiple periods my scenery now seems to work.
 
Welcome to the site.
Interesting issue so I did some testing.
I'm using Windows 7 & EZ-Scenery v1
I created a file named KDAN.test.BGL while placing a hangar on a runway. It showed up properly.
I closed then restarted FS 2004 and the hangar did not show up.
I closed FS.
I renamed the file to test.BGL.
I restarted FS and there was my hangar on the runway.
Conclusion: it seems it's not about the O.S. or about EZ-Scenery but rather FS itself that doesn't like the file name format.
 
As I recall FS will read the part after the first point and the extension and if that is not bgl then it gets ignored. I recall this was originally found when trying to disable a bgl file. Changing test.bgl to test.bgl.xxx did not stop FS from reading the file as a bgl file
 
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