I keep starting MM7 and on emerald isle the temple of moon is empty ie nothing in there enemy or treasure wise, all chests on the island are empty and only 3 dragonflys in the marshland!

any ideas?

Only thing I can think of is to delete the game, and reload. You need things in the Temple to get off the Isle.

no matter I sorted it with the old: RUN AS ADMIN trick

That's a weird little bug! Never had that happen to me before!

Just make me happy and kill dat dragon. It can be done. Just not in TB combat.

Some games, old & new, want to do things in the way of saving files and so on that require admin mode in WinVista/7/8. The OSes that were in use at the time these older games shipped, especially, had *no* "admin mode" at all, but the newer OSes sometimes require admin mode be set because of how these older games want to do things (all kinds of rule-breaking going on). "Admin mode" is just another layer of security in current OSes.

Also, it depends on how individual machines are configured for security and so on. So one machine might need admin mode whereas another, running the same OS and game, might not.