Well that's good :) Unfortunately I do have all the latest patches, I uninstalled all of it, then installed A2, patched it to 1.11, then installed OA, patched it to 1.60, then installed BAF and PMC, then patched those using the 1.60 patch.
I was having the new problem described in the post above, which I fixed by reinstalling, now I'm having the original problem. Mine is the sprocket version of the game with both BAF and PMC, command line is correct, combined ops is running perfectly. I am confused.