Ever since you implemented the Couatl "live" I have had nothing but problems.
There are no problems with it.
First, it pops up and says it needs to download via in game....ALL the time.
No, it doesn't. It does that, only if you don't install the suggested update
I checked and already had the latest Couatl manager downloaded...so what does it keep trying to update???
That's you mistake. You assume that "because" you downloaded the "latest Couatl manager" ( there's no such thing, maybe you mean "The Stand-Alone Addon Manager" installer ), there will be no further updates. If you see an update message, it means there has been another update that has been released AFTER the day you last installed the Stand-Alone Addon Manager.
Second, when it does update it often makes FSX crash saying that their is a conflict with the Couatl module.
No, it doesn't do that.
When a minor update is released, it will restart Couatl.exe. So, it's possible your problem is the Restart function is not working for some reason, but this is of course entirely unrelated to the Live Update, you woould probably see the same message even if you tried "restart Couatl" yourself.
But since you haven't indicate the PRECISE, exact text of the message ( there's no such message like "there is a conflict with the Couatl module" ), it's difficult to understand what's causing this. Please indicate the precise, exact, text of an error message, so we can understand if it's coming from our software or from FSX, or from Windows itself, and they are all entirely different issues that must be handled entirely different.
I have had to delete ALL FSDT products and reinstall them for it to stop crashing.
This was obviously entirely redundant and not needed. If you have issues with the Live Update, just download and install the Stand-Alone Addon Manager, and install it when FSX is not running. This will update EVERYHING related to the Addon Manager and Couatl.exe.
The CYVR scenery which I have NEVER had issues with then crashes until after all scenery's are loaded and the latest Couatl manager is reinstalled after everything.
Please indicate the precise, exact, text of any errors you see.
I cannot load PHNL straight from FSX without going to another FSDT scenery and letting it load the cache.
If with "loading the cache" you mean REGENERATING the cache, this might be your problem. You are not even supposed to "wait" to load for the cache. The cache will be recreated ONLY if you add a new scenery OR if it wasn't completed successfully the last session. This might happen if FSX crashed in the previous session.
Normally, you should see just the "Airport cache loaded successfully" message at startup, without any wait.
If you see the cache regeneration message, with the progress percentage, try not doing anything, and let it end. Check if it says the cache has been recreated successfully or not,. If it hasn't, maybe there's a problem with one of your sceneries (a corrupted .BGL, for example), so it cannot complete the regeneration, and it will start again on the next start.
If the cache regeneration has completed successfully, try to EXIT from FSX, wait a few seconds so you are sure it has closed correctly, then restart it. You should see the "Airport cache loaded successfully" message at startup now.
Only then can I load PHNL without it crashing. Now tonight...yet ANOTHER Couatl update (really?? another??) and now FSX keeps crashing on exit. This time I got a message saying their was a problem with my FSUIPC module..REALLY??
This clearly proves the problem doesn't have anything to do with us, since none of our modules use or interacts with FSUIPC.
So I reinstalled the version of FSUIPC (same version already installed before) and no more message.
This further clearly proves the problem didn't had anything to do with us, since it was fixed by reinstalling FSUIPC.
Yet FSX still crashes on exit every time.
Please indicate the precise, exact, text of the error message. And please indicate even if you don't see ANY error message. A silent crash with no messages is caused by having old and new files mixed together, and this might be caused by the antivirus or the firewall, which is blocking SOME of the files that are supposed to be updated, and let it pass some others, causing a total mess that will surely crash FSX with no error messages.
In this case, be sure you turn off the firewall, and reinstall the Stand-Alone Addon Manager for FSX only.
I have never had any issues with Flightbeam, Fly-Tampa or any other add-ons except Couatl and FSDT.
You said it...Flightbeam uses EXACTLY THE SAME FILES AS WE DO!! They use the precise, identical, exact, same version of Couatl we use with GSX, and their installers downloads the same files from the same location (OUR server), because WE MADE THE installers for Flightbeam!