Lord knows I've no room to dick around with any of you, your help has been amazing for what of it you have given, Dwarden especially, you sir are a hero.
Ok windows 7 x64 people running steam. This is all I did.
1: Steam platform randomly updated today & took a good minute. So I figured it might be an ArmA2 fix, negative. Still loaded version 1.04.
2:Set ArmA2's auto update to disable.
3:Shut down steam completely.
4:Opened Regedit & CTRL+F for find. Searched " Bohemia " & found it under " \HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA2 "
5:Added New String Value and called it " MAIN "
6:Added " c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 " to " MAIN " string I just created.
7:Installed Patch 1.05, not a single error, installed finished perfectly.
8:Ran ArmA2, steam turned on, ArmA2 started up and went past the splash screen this time without the damned " Invalid Crew Civilian " error.
Everything seems to be working. *crosses fingers and loads jinx cannon in case *
+TS.