Glad to hear it, be sure to post as such on ModDB as well and let them know what the problem was. We get too much bad press for this sort of thing when it is simply issues with having the correct final BF2142 patch rather than an issue with First Strike itself. EA really screwed us (and BF2142 players in general) over with that last patch as they made a right mess of the release resulting in that last patch not being so well known, and multiple other "supposedly" final patches out there.
Hope to see you at the weekend for a couple of games. Once again welcome to the mod.