Problem with UT custom bot skins

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> This may well have been answered before, but having looked for quite
> some time and reading every FAQ I could find I haven't been able to
> quite get this working. So apologies if this is something that you've
> already answered a hundred times, but Google Groups didn't help me find
> the answer.
>
> I've recently got back into playing UT, multiplayer over a LAN. I
> downloaded some custom skins for use in the game, which unfortunately
> didn't show up multiplayer. It didn't matter too much that I was
> invisible since the guy on the other computer was generally on my team.
> After much research and much experimentation, I got that working OK so
> that custom player models showed up.
>
> Hooray! I thought, and proceeded to customise the bots with custom
> skins. Unfortunately they were also invisible, even if they were using
> the same skin as the player model. Cue more fiddling.
>
> So now the bots show up, but when they are alive they show a different
> skin. When they're dead they display correctly. If I run a listen server
> they show up fine on my computer, but incorrectly on the other. If I run
> a dedicated server and then join from the same machine, they don't show
> up properly. wtf? Obviously I've missed something, but I don't know what.
>
> I've slapped everything that seemed appropriate as ServerPackages in
> the [Engine.GameEngine] section, and I've got
> [MultiMesh.multimeshmenu]
> bForceDefaultMesh=False
> in there too.
>
> Some more information that you may or may not find helpful:
> Two machines connected by a crossover. One's a 1.2 GHz Athlon running
> Win2K SP4 with a GeForce 2 GTS, the other's a K6-2 475 running Win98SE
> with a GeForce 256. Both machines are using UT GOTY patched to 436. I've
> got the custom skins, bonus packs, Advanced Model Support and the bonus
> pack 4 fix installed on both machines.
>
> It's the fact that it works one the one machine as listen, but not as
> dedicated that's got me really confused.
>
Can no one help?

TIA.

CK