My statue is still stuck. No Master builder will touch it nor will the chief "direct work." Is this supposed to happen? I have only 3 puzzles to finish and one of them is the statue. I can't finish the other 2 without finishing the statue. If there is nothing that can be done then there is no point in going on!

Many people are successfully completing the statue puzzle with the 1.00.03 update and the workaround described in the statue puzzle thread. Have you checked this thread yet?

My solved puzzles aren't registering in Puzzles. I have done Aromatherapy and Rain Dancing, but they are still showing as unsolved. I have 1.00.03.

You haven't finished those puzzles. Aromatherapy has a second part, and Weather Dancing has to be done correctly in order to be solved. There's weather dancing, and then there's proper weather dancing.

You're right of course - I hadn't had the Master Doctor light the fires.

But now I have a real problem.
The statue is in place. The pearl appeared. My Master Builder reshaped it so now it is a nice round blue sphere.
But my Chief can't pick it up!
Message is, "This villager lacks the skills..."

I suppose the problem is there was too long a wait between my Master Builder finishing it and my Chief trying to pick it up? (Chief was nursing baby at the time and wouldn't do anything).

I tried putting Master Builder on the finished Pearl but same message "This villager lacks the skills..."

So what can I do now?? Is it hopeless? Is it a _bug_?

No, the message "This villager lacks the skills..." is telling you to try a villager who is a Master in a different skill.

But it's supposed to be the Chief who picks it up.
However I will try Doctor and Scientist.

Thanks, isla. That worked!

Just ran into something with the Roster of the Dead. I have 7 gravestones, and when I click on the Roster of the Dead, it only displays the first two who died. Also, when I click on the gravestone of 3-7, nothing happens.

Here's whats weird, it was working fine until I closed out the program (which I left on slow). When I opened it up several hours later, that's when my villagers disappeared from the roster.

I'm running Vista and using 1.00.03 version.

We have discovered that there is a _bug_ that occurs during burials that temporarily causes problems with the roster and the gravestones. Once the burials are complete, everything should be working again, although it's possible that there will be an extra or missing villager. We are working on that.