Thanks for all the help guys.

I'm going to write the save/load function myself again. There are some other issues popping up which I need to fix, and they are all pointing my in the direction of writing my own save/load function.

I am okay with the A7 shadows for now (assuming I can fix this problem), but I will look at other options in my next phase of development. They do use LOD-1 by default (as opposed to LOD-0), but you can set them to different LOD levels if you need to.

@Malice - It sounds like you are referring to the A8 engine/manual. Sorry, I should have mentioned it was A7 in my original post.