YES LADS! All working - will test it for a day, make sure my game doesn't implode or something. Thanks for all the help!

Cheers Icarus, will see if I can do it.
And MUZZIAH, I've actually got 'Peer' as the top spot with Prime Minister as 2nd highest. I thought it made more sense if a sim who stayed in the politics career for life wasn't the eternal Prime Minister.

Okay, I had no problem with editing the files (very easy method - thanks!). Same problem I encountered in some of the MTS tutorials, though: when I put the edited package in mods/packages and run the game, a lot of the in-game text is missing. Do you know how to get around this problem?

Thanks all! Will give that a shot.

I thought Packer was only for the smaller custom career files? What I want to do is rename the descriptions/titles in the base game politics career - will it still work?

<t>I've been looking at renaming the job titles for the politics career, so it matches up the British system (Prime Minister, MPs, etc). Last year I followed a couple of tutorials on MTS but, despite following them to the letter, they didn't work. I was wondering if anyone could give me a hand with ...