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I'll try and find out how to get them both running thanks

Yes I see that process. Do I need both A and B? I only have punkbusterA.exe

How do I force the slot to stay open? I have tried running as admin. I have tried reinstalling PB and AA both. I am running in compatability mode for windows 2000 (which is the latest option). I now know that PB keeps kicking me because the "slot closed" but how in the hell do I force it to stay open. I need a complex solution, not a simple one. All the simple ones don't work!         

I would like to suggest that someone fix the problem where "Punkbuster has kicked [player] for an undefined reason. Slot closed." I have seen this happen to at least four other players, and I cannot play a single match without it happening to me. I have tried EVERY fix suggested with no results.
Run as administrator? Check.
Reinstall/Fix PB? Check.
Reinstall AA completely? Check.(three times)
Don't Close AA25 Assist while playing? Check.
Fiddle around with all sorts of settings to try fix on my own? Check.

Punkbuster keeps kicking me "for an undefined reason. Slot closed." It says. I have tried multiple solutions given me by other players, and am grateful, but none have had any effect. I have; Completely reinstalled AA, I have reinstalled PB, I have no firewall issues, I have checked to see that punkbusterA.exe is a process and it is, I am pretty sure everything is run as admin. I have tried fiddling with settings in AA itself.
     
     I would love a fix for this. It's almost a minor problem, but it is so inconsistent that it becomes frustrating. Sometimes I will be kicked right off the bat, and sometimes it lets me play several rounds before doing so.

     Also something maybe worthwhile mentioning is that I have not (so far) been kicked from any MAAPs levels, but when the map switched to a regular AA level, I was kicked after the first round.

     Another thing I will mention is that when I install (both the first and second times) AA, it keeps stopping the install at certain points throughout the 1-11 steps of the download, saying something like "download stopped due to connection" It will do this about 10 times before finally completing the download. The funny thing is, I have no connection issues, my connection is fine and runs steadily.

     Is there a place that I can get AA 2.5 the game, separately from AA25 Assist? It seems like the way Assist downloads and installs the game is somewhat funky. It downloads all the files seemingly one by one, rather than just giving a basic AA 2.5 installer that installs the whole game. I have the installer for AA 2.8.5, but of course Assist doesn't support that version...

    Please help! Any assistance is much appreciated, thank you in advance.