> Third, I do have an sfa.zip and a sfa sub-folder containing the chd's. So the
> messeage is correct. I only have one rom path defined. However, using this
> logic, shouldn't I get the same message for area51? I currently do not.


Hmmm...You don't see the effect on Area51 because this set uses chds and for such sets, the warning is disabled.
Now you'd say: But sfa does use chds, too. Well...Point taken...the thing is that not sfa but clones of it use chds, so it complains about sfa having a folder and zipfile in your rompaths.
But exactly this thing (clones do have chds while the parent doesn't) was fixed in 3.97a. So I really wonder why you still get it. One possible option would be that your imported data simply doesn't include the chds for that cps2 set.

Anyway... I will recheck that issue later at home...


Roman Scherzer