Thank you.

I am not sure what these things are and thus ask you to explain what the links and programs do before I click on it.  Even so, I have already replaced the .mdb file and lost everything so I can actually continue playing with a new game.

If you use the portable launcher utility, or my back up utility, you'll have a backup of your game. Both are in sub-forums of the Installation forum here.

Unfortunately my system underwent a blue screen of death when I hit 5 days and now the game is unsalvageable due to system resource corruption... new games are also fubar'd. 

Ouch.  A couple of things to try after backing up your save file:
As an administrator, run 'sfc /scannow' at the command line.
Download and run JETCOMP.exe from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295334
JETCOMP.exe is also included in AcidWeb's Portable Launcher Utility. http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/board,191.0.html
PLU also automatically backs up your save file.

I was honestly thinking of a ship that has a recreational module, a fuel storage module, a hanger bay, a maintenance bay and possibly, if it exists, mineral storage and construction capacities.   Basically, a potential station set up as a planet building its own ships. . .

For the recreational and maintenance modules to work the ship mounting them needs to be in orbit of something.  This can be an asteroid or comet, but it does need to have that orbital connection.  The problem with this is if you want the ship on top of the jump point.  There is almost no chance that a jump point will be close enough to any orbital realestate to be able to use the modules.  The closest you are probably going to get is a jump point defense force, and a resource extraction force that is somewhere insystem.

Put the recreational module, a few maintenance modules on the ship.  Have a few auto-mines and factories and set them to making maintenance supplies.  5 modules would allow the basing of FAC's at the resource base.  When an enemy sticks their head into the system you can have a few energy armed ships sitting on the jump point to handle small attacks.  With a large attack the FAC's can sortie from in system and attack with missiles.

Brian

I've thought about this and can't for the life of me figure out what the advantages are over using a "gate monitor" type of ship (as Steve uses in a few of his fictions).  The space station idea seems like it would be something you could just place and forget, say with 10 years of intended deployment, but honestly you'd just end up seeing the weapons go obsolete and wonder why you spent so many build points on something big and immobile that can't be used for alternate purposes (and that the enemy will not be surprised by twice).  Instead just design a ship with 2+ years of deployment time that has lots of short-range energy weapons, with maybe only one engine and a little fuel storage.  That'll allow you to move it to a jump point, ambush anybody that comes through, and move under its own power if needed elsewhere or if it's time for maintenance/refit.  Or, just make it a regular thing that when new energy ships enter your fleet, the second-newest models get rotated to jump point duty, and the third-newest get scrapped or recycled.

What is the best way to get a good space station set up at a jump point without necessarily making the space station itself mobile.   I am intending to make it a choke point in case a rival turns hostile.