This is an enhanced version of the options patch.

It's more robust now, and gives some helpfull information if something
goes wrong. Also the naming in the options.xml file has changed to the
syntax David suggested.

Since no one objected to the patch I think it is safe to included it.

Thanks

@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
   MSVC5 compatibility.
 
 
+Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
+  Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats.
+  Created the led.txf font.
+  Made some improvements of the telnet and the http interface.
+  Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim.
+
+
 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
   Authors of the zlib library.  Used for on-the-fly compression and
   decompression routines.
@@ -164,6 +171,8 @@ Mike Hill <mikehill@flightsim.com>
 
 
 Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
+  Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
+  aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
   Irix port.
 
 
@@ -222,7 +231,9 @@ David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
   Working on getting fgfs and ssg to work without textures.
   Also added the new 2D panel and the save/load support.
   Property manager
-  Joystick support
+  Generalized input module
+  3D model animation module
+  initial take of sound-effects module
 
 
 Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
@@ -234,6 +245,7 @@ Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
   Reigning list admin.
   Provided man pages.
   Self-proclaimed code janitor.
+  FAQ maintainer.
 
 
 Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
@@ -439,6 +451,13 @@ Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
   http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
 
 
+Jim Wilson <jimw@kelcomaine.com>
+  Wrote a major overhaul of the viewer code to make it more flexible 
+  and modular.  Contributed many small fixes and bug reports.
+  Contributed the the pui property browser.
+  Contributed to the autopilot.
+
+
 Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
   Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
   data file format.  This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly