there was a thread on this awhile back, but can't remember anyone having a fix, other than reinstalling. If you look, you'll probably find the dots in the cloth room, and perhaps in others as well. I tried to eck out the code..its XML, but couldn't really figure out where the memory dot stuff resides...there are references to it in the pref files and ui folder...I tried to change some stuff but with no luck. Hopefully someone with more skill can figure out how to get them back without reinstalling. I'm going to send a bug report to CL right now...should have done that before.

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