Let me try to explain this Scott. What happened was one day after WGT had made an update. The nation flag suddenly had 3 lines of text, along with a place holder for the flag. The flag no longer showed, in its place was a place holder. I had been using Torch for some time as is worked very well with the forum pages and the site. All of a sudden it did not work correctly anymore, nothing else(as far am I am aware of) changed on my end. Both chrome and firefox had stopped handling flash correctly, but torch still handled it very well, just as slimjet handled it well for the game client.
As I checked my win10 machine, it worked just fine, but I was using edge on that machine. I had dumped edge on this win7 machine(as it had stopped working correctly, and updated, even as I had updates turned off) as I had downloaded it as a beta before edge was even supposed to work with 7. In a different thread I was told edge worked just fine as far as this problem was concerned. I redownloaded edge and tried it, it worked just fine. I switched from Torch to Edge as my default and all has been well. This is why I was no longer seeing the problem. It has never been a problem for me on 10, that was why I thought it was only a 7 problem.
The farther we get away from 7 end of life, I am running into more strange problems with 7.
This is probably gonna be a moot point after tomorrow anyway. We will all be running our computers differently.