I'm confused, this program (at the start of this thread) is very much separate from the tutorial. Are you using the program or following the tutorial; that would totally change how I answer your questions.
I have been using the beta program. I just decided to try it the old way since all I was doing was spinning my wheels. I have used the water and transport no less than a dozen times now only to always end up with just a prj file in each folder.
My question was since it did not work using the method from the tutorial yesterday (which had worked before) maybe the 2 issues are some what connected via possibly the txt files I mentioned or something else. Since the result of running the sql final yesterday afternoon after combing all the statewide files resulted in a shape file that was the same one created from my Olympic peninsula map (not the whole state as I had combined) it seems there is some conflict some where.
After all if no one else is having a issue it must be my machine
Cheers-Marc