I recently reinstalled BF1942, after a long while of not having played it.

After locating, and applying patch to 1.61b, i found pb didnt work.

I found this patcher, and as far as i can tell so far, it fixes that problem.

So here is link for those who are stumped, as i was.

http://tankpanzer.com/Joomla/index.php/bf42/1-pbbf42

The installer says to be sure to select 'dont make program group', and be sure to point it to the pb folder in your bf1942 folder [ e.g., x:\games\bf1942\pb\ ]