Alerts:
Regarding Alerts, we do understand that in certain high load circumstances alerts are being lost. If you switch off the network alerts, do your local alerts work fine? Also how many alerts have you put in place?
Aircraft not Appearing:
Once these aircraft appear with globes in your List, if you double click them does the map centre on the correct area to where the aircraft should be (I know that may be hard to work out). This could be related to a graphics issue.
TCP Port:
Zillie, just to clarify we didn't say a patch would be released, we said in the email to you that we would investigate and if an issue is found we would release a patch. The TCP port is used heavily in a few applications and we haven't been able to replicate what your seeing. If you contact us via a support ticket we can try and gather further information and come to the bottom of what your seeing.