i asked earlier and havent been answered, why can i not start TCE by itself WITHOUT using GameSpy Arcade??

It goes back to the hunkmeg error. As I have seen simply editing the cfg files doesnt work for everyone. You need the shortcut to get TCE running without the hunkmeg crash. That is because the shortcut will contain start up settings that will be used by the Quake3console. Using an external browser depending on its settigns if it had any will open WET and load the TCE mod using default ET cfg settings for hunkmeg values. Therefore causing some functions and maps in TCE not to work. I dont know what is wrong with those two maps, the menu etc... but it happens.