As of now I could try writing such a program, but I only have Win XP on a virtual machine and I am not sure if that will run correctly on Vista/7.

You can use the install iso of Win7 for a 30 day trial, which works pretty well for testing stuff in a VM. (I won't have time until mid of January, so ...

Thanks for you interest in helping maintaining the checksum-bug-attribute. I'd be really glad if you would help verifying levels. I just started a thread in the Feedback-Forum of PD where you can post the verified levels.

BTW: I actually started testing levels from the back, but I still have a ...

Don't know whether this is a major point for everyone, but BFV doesn't run on linux and/or mac. UT2K4 does!

acutally all ut2k4-fighters can be flown in any direction at any time you I have not noticed such a limitation.

Actually kdevelop3 is documented pretty well. and if you create a custom-project you will not have all those gnu-makeutils-files created.

Maybe a dumb question, but:
Why is KDevelop not an option?