[ExI] Help needed--with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

[Damien Broderick]

I've been using this dictation software for several years, mainly 
with good results (after I've spent enough time training the 
allegedly Australian version to make sense of my accent). But every 
now and then the damned thing just can't find all the modifications 
I've made to a given User and tells me that "The vocabulary you have 
chosen 'General-Medium' is incompatible or invalid". So far this 
bullshit has occurred at least 4 times, and even though the user name 
remains visible (and presumably the associated file is still on the 
computer), the vile thing can't find it. (I suspect a recent Restore 
back several weeks under Windows XP might have moved something 
somewhere it can't put its stupid finger on.)

I went looking for help from Nuance, who currently own, sell and 
purportedly support the program, and after going through tedious 
hoops to get a PIN (entering the serial number, all my personal 
details, rights to the life of my first-born, you know how it is), 
the motherfuckers cheerfully told me to send them $9.95 and they'd 
have an email conversation with me about my problem. Since there's no 
proof that they'd bother to find and resolve the problem, I cursed 
angrily and went away. I might give in to this extortionate demand if 
there's no other way to find an answer, but in the meanwhile--

--if anyone here knows a nifty way for me to get my mojo back, please 
let me know, either on the list or off. I've searched for online user 
groups, of course, haven't found anything more recent than about 
1999, all links dead and gone.

Thanks, folks!

Damien Broderick