I'm out.. I deleted it again.. I apparently gave too much credit too soon.. So silly of me..
Why why why is this game so self destructive?  I purposely kept it vanilla to stop it from destroying itself and.. It destroyed itself..  Unbelievable.. It started out innocently enough. A quick drive scenario took 10 minutes to load. 5 minutes on the quick drive menu before it finally switched to the loading scenario screen which took 5 more minutes.. This should have taken 20 seconds tops like it did before. 
Once it loaded I exited the game.. Tried to reload to see if it was just a glitch.. Nope.. This time after 10 minutes my HDD light was a solid color and just nothing going on.. CTRL-ALT-DELETE.
Re-Run TS013
BADLY FORMED XML dialog... The stupid sim doesn't even start now.
I'm done.. I tried.. I really did.. I did everything RSC wants you to do.  Kept it simple, no tweaks, I didn't edit a single xml, just steamworks, and TS 2013...  Again.. I have the time in the stupid world to deal with this.. I-SHOULD-NOT-HAVE-TO..  Nothing I ever owned is this self destructive.. I.. Just.... I'm at a loss for words.. Over 4 years dealing with this sim and it's still predictably unpredictable. Such a shame and such a waste.. 
Thanks to Google: 
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=3030241Bye.. Sorry I couldn't stay longer.. Good luck..