veni: I am running metamod . Also, I've tried WIP #10 as well with exactly the same results.

I completely nuked my CS cache and directories and I'm about to give it a fresh go in a bit here. If it still happens afterward, then I'll be willing to bet it IS some monstrously obscure bug and not just me being incompetent .

EDIT: Well, the cache nuke fixed things up nicely. Obviously I must've had some config conflict/error somewhere, but I'm not dedicated enough to Half-Life to go looking for specific solutions .

For searching purposes, if anyone comes across this, just delete your local game content, download CS again, and then go about stuffing in metamod and so on.